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Steny Hoyer: “Intolerance based on one's religious belief, ethnicity and race is a poison that has coursed throughout the body of…”

On the recordOctober 28, 2003
Intolerance based on one's religious belief, ethnicity and race is a poison that has coursed throughout the body of human history, and it has caused untold suffering, pain and strife. This great Nation itself, Madam Speaker, was settled by people who fled religious persecution, and I submit that we, the elected Representatives of the strongest and freest Nation on earth and the progeny of that proud legacy, have a moral responsibility to expose and combat such intolerance and prejudice wherever and whenever it rears its head.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Addressing the importance of combating intolerance and prejudice in society.

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