Political Quotes

“It has been said that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. And unfortunately, American indifference to religious persecution lends our tacit, if indirect, support and approval of some of the most awful abuses of human rights, particularly abuses of a right we sometimes take for granted, which of course is the freedom of religion. As a senior member of the House Committee on International Relations, I have heard a great deal of testimony about the persecution of individuals abroad, persecution based solely on religious beliefs. In committee we heard about the atrocities committed by the Chinese Government against Tibetan Buddhists. We heard eye-witness testimony of frightened, weak, and near starving Tibetans who traveled hundreds of miles, often barefoot with nothing but the shirt on their back, over the cold and often deadly Himalayan Mountains into India to seek relief. Most Americans would be shocked to learn that Christians in the Sudan are actually sold into slavery on a daily basis. Those Buddhist monks and others that I mentioned, the Chinese Government rapes, tortures, and murders them. The execution of religious minorities in Iran is almost commonplace.”