Fitzpatrick Reaffirms Dignity and Equality For All

Statement

Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-08) issued a statement on the political climate following last Tuesday's general election.

I strongly condemn incidents of violence, racial harassment, and targeted aggression occurring around the nation and in our community.

We must valiantly guard our cherished values promised in the Declaration and defended by generations of brave Americans. Throughout our history, we have strived to attain rights and privileges for a free and prosperous nation, that we all are created equal and that we all are endowed with inalienable rights. If we choose to deny these rights, we will not move forward, but we will move back to a time of less equality and less protection of the individual..

We can have the most effect in our communities; we must stand up for each other and support each other in the face of violence and aggression. As President Obama remarked in 2012, "we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense."

As your federal representative from the area founded on the values of tolerance and fairness by William Penn and the Quakers, I remain staunchly committed to defending the dignity and rights of every American citizen. Dignity is not extended to a privileged few; rather, dignity is right for all.

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