Sam Brownback: “I thought I might put in the Record, and in the resolution there is listed a number of things that Mother Teresa did…”

“I thought I might put in the Record, and in the resolution there is listed a number of things that Mother Teresa did, but just for the interest of the body, it might be interesting to note some of those things that happened. Mother Teresa expanded her personal dedication by founding the Missionaries of Charity, which people may not be familiar with but I think most are, which included well over 3,000 members of 25 countries who devote their entire lives to serving the poor without accepting any material reward in return. She has been recognized as a humanitarian around the world in various forms: The first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971; the Jawaharal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1972; the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979; the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985; and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. She was born in 1910 in the former Yugoslavia, and received a calling on a train saying she should go serve the poorest of the poor, a calling, that was recently just celebrated, of nearly 50 years ago. That is when she went to India to start her Missionaries of Charity. There are a couple of things that also stand out in my mind. When she received the Nobel Peace Prize she refused a dinner, the banquet that they normally put forward for those who receive that, and asked that the cash equivalent instead be used for money to build more missions and help more people instead of having the lavish dinner.”