Mark Odom Hatfield (1922 – 2011) was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. He served for 30 years as a United States Senator from Oregon, and also as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
An excerpt from an introduction of a resolution for a national day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer:
We are in need of repentance. Our claims of righteousness as individuals, and as a nation, deceive only ourselves. We remember the words of the prophet Amos: “I hate, I despise your feasts, and your solemn assemblies, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take away from me the noise of your songs, for I will not hear the melody of your viols. But let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” (Amos 5:21-24)
