President Bush said on the National Day of Prayer May 6 the Lord “is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice.”
The president told those at the White House observance “it is the deepest strength of America that from the hour of our founding we have chosen justice as our goal.”
“Our greatest failures as a nation have come when we lost sight of that goal: In slavery, in segregation, and in every wrong that has denied the value and dignity of life,” Bush said. “Our finest moments have come when we have faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens and for the people of other lands. Through our nation’s history, we have turned to prayer for wisdom to know the good and for the courage to do the good.”
Bush issued a proclamation April 30 in recognition of the day. Congress established the National Day of Prayer in 1952.
(BP)
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