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Robert Dornan: Tensions threaten to rip apart our cities and neighborhoods. Crime and violence is of epidemic proportions in most of…

On the recordMay 14, 1996
Tensions threaten to rip apart our cities and neighborhoods. Crime and violence is of epidemic proportions in most of our cities among the young. Children take weapons to school. Broken families, poverty, drugs, teenage pregnancy, corruption; the list is almost endless. Would the first recipients of the congressional award... even recognize our society that they sacrificed to establish? Doctor Graham says: I fear not. We have confused liberty with license, and we are paying the awful price. We are a society poised on the brink of self destruction. The culture of death involving abortion... is why this country is unraveling.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing societal issues and quoting Dr. Billy Graham during a speech.

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