Political Quotes

“After Auschwitz, our delegation then traveled to Yad Vashem where we mourned the loss of--believe this--1.5 million little children, killed in this most evil of atrocities. Before we left Washington, in Krakow, Poland, and throughout the time in Israel, we were blessed to meet with and hear the testimony of survivors. Their message to us was this: ``Never forget.'' As Elie Wiesel, one of the most important voices of conscience that has ever lived said: ``If we forget, the dead will be killed a second time. If forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. The rejection of memory . . . would doom us to repeat past disasters, past wars.'' ``Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Anti-Semitism,'' that was the theme of the Yad Vashem observance. It is the charge that we carry with us. We must always remember the horrors of the Holocaust, particularly now as the forces of evil that led to the Shoah, are reawakening, and, therefore, we must not only remember the Holocaust, but fight anti- Semitism. Today, around the world, an epidemic of anti-Semitism and bigotry is spreading with appalling hate crimes being perpetrated everywhere from supermarkets to synagogues. Disturbingly, we have seen a surge of anti- Semitic attacks here in America.…”