Holocaust Quotes - Page 3

• On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Compassion

  Statement from the President on Yom Hashoah, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 08, 2013.

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• There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

  Donald R. Prothero

  Climate, Share, Traits

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• Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.

  Kofi Annan

  Europe, People, Done

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.120, Routledge

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• As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

  Bob Beauprez

  People, Suffering, Never Forget

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• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  Mark Udall

  Documentation, Horror, Genocide

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• Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Fields, Study, Nonsense

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.

  Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli

  Pain, Hate, Shadow

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• There was no one left to speak for me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Speaking Up, Bystanders, Nwo

  "First they came". Poem by Martin Niemoller,

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• Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Running, Children

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books

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• If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

  Emanuel Celler

  Way, Found, Interest

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• Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, political prisoners and dozens of ethnic and other minorities.

  Jack Straw

  Memorial Day, Community, Political

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• This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.

  Horst Kohler

  Memories, Alive, Crime

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• I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.

  Yehuda Bauer

  Inspirational, Time, Bystanders

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• The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Military, Successful, Rights

  "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.

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• I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

  Daniel Barenboim

  People, Survivor, Imagine

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

  Paul McCartney

  Believe, People, Climate

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• That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Girl, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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• We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

  Charlie Dent

  Religious, Inhumanity To Man, Tolerance

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• We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral way that this is something that took place in the heart of man. That's something that you can feel, the genocidal tendency is within human nature. It seems that if we forget about this, our future is also compromised.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Heart, Men, Events

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

  Ellen Goodman

  Global Warming, Climate Change, Holocaust Deniers

  "Ellen Goodman: Global warning". Boston Globe op-ed, www.post-gazette.com. February 09, 2007.

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• We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

  David Ben-Gurion

  War, White, Paper

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• The force that has overcome Europe and destroyed entire states within days could cope with us, a handful of youngsters. It was an act of desperation . . . We aspired to only one thing: to sell our lives for the highest possible price.

  Mordechaj Tenenbaum

  Europe, Overcoming, Desperation

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• An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

  Jon Niccum

  Argument, Truth Is, Climate Change

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• If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

  Scott Pelley

  Interviews, Energy, Survivor

  "Hellfire and Heresy: Global Warming Hotheads Inflamed About Skeptical Challengers". www.forbes.com. March 23, 2006.

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• I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Trials, Praying

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