David Price: “Take care and watch yourselves closely so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip…”

“Take care and watch yourselves closely so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children . . .'' (Deuteronomy 4:9) =========================== NOTE =========================== May 5, 2005--On Page H 3036 the following appeared: Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker,. The online version should be corrected to read: Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker,. ========================= END NOTE ========================= On this day of remembrance we confront stark, unmitigated evil, evil that could impose and did impose starvation, torture, unimaginable cruelty, and--for 6 million human beings--death. We also confront the evil that let this happen, the evil of indifference. It is indifference that Elie Weisel describes as the ``epitome of evil.'' ``The opposite of love is not hate,'' he says, ``it is indifference. . . . The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.'' It was indifference that enabled millions to avert their gaze as the Nazis undertook genocide on a scale never before imagined. Remembrance of the Holocaust affects us deeply as we empathize with the victims and what they endured but also as we recognize: the scourge of indifference, the temptation to indifference, are all too familiar to us today. Indifference often prevents us from expressing love, achieving justice, or realizing community.…”