President Obama's Remarks at the U.S. Holocaust Museum (Tweeted, W/Pics)

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President Barack Obama lights a candle alongside Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in the Remembrance Hall at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, April 23, 2012. During his visit to the museum Obama also delivered remarks on future holocaust prevention. REUTERS/Jason Reed


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"If you can continue to strive & speak, then we can speak and strive for a future where there’s a place for dignity for every human being."
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"If you could not give up, if you could believe, then we can believe."—President Obama speaking to Elie Wiesel and other Holocaust survivors
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"To Elie and the survivors who are here today, thank you for not giving up. You show us the way.”—President Obama at the @HolocaustMuseum
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POTUS: "We must continue believing in a future. To stare into the abyss, to face the darkness and say, 'there is a future.'"
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"Our work will never be done. There will be conflicts that are not easily resolved. There will be senseless deaths that are not prevented."
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POTUS: “I’ve signed an executive order that authorizes new sanctions against Syria and Iran.”
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President Obama: "National sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.”
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President Obama on preventing genocide: "We’ll work with other nations so the burden is shared, because this is a global responsibility."
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"We’re going to institutionalize the focus on this issue across government."—POTUS on a new effort to monitor and address mass atrocities
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“This is not an afterthought. This is not a sideline in our foreign policy.”—President Obama
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POTUS: "We’re making sure the U.S. government has the structures and the mechanisms to better respond to mass atrocities."
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"For the first time, we explicitly barred entry into the U.S. to those accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity."—President Obama
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POTUS: “We’re doing more to protect women and girls from the horrors of wartime violence.”
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"When the referendum in South Sudan was in doubt, with determined diplomacy, South Sudan became the world’s newest nation.”—President Obama
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POTUS: "Preventing genocides and mass atrocities is a core security interest and a core moral interest of the United States of America."
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"Preventing genocide is an achievable goal, but it is one that does not start from the top. It starts from the bottom up.”—President Obama
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President Obama: “When attempts are made to delegitimize the state of Israel, we reject them.”
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“When efforts are made to equate Zionism with racism, we reject them.”—President Obama
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POTUS: “Never again is a challenge to reject hatred in all of its forms, including anti-Semitism, which has no place in a civilized world.”
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President Obama: "Remembrance without resolve is a hollow gesture. Awareness without action changes nothing."
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“We must tell our children about a crime unique in human history—6 million innocent people sent to their deaths, just for being different."
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President Obama: "That’s why we’re here: not simply to remember, but to speak. I say this as a President and as a father."
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"It is a truly humbling moment to be introduced by Elie Wiesel.”—President Obama at the @HolocaustMuseum


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related:

President Obama, in his statement released on Thursday, said that on this "day, and all days, we must do more than remember. We must resolve that 'never again' is more than an empty slogan."

"As individuals, we must guard against indifference in our hearts and recognize ourselves in our fellow human beings," the American president said, adding that, as "societies, we must stand against ignorance and anti-Semitism, including those who try to deny the Holocaust. As nations, we must do everything we can to prevent and end atrocities in our time."

Obama began his statement by saying: "We honor the memory of six million innocent men, women and children who were sent to their deaths simply because of their Jewish faith. We stand in awe of those who fought back, in the ghettos and in the camps, against overwhelming odds."


More Than Just Remembering - by Madeleine Albright and William Cohen -- April 23
U.S. President Barack Obama's planned announcement Monday morning at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum of a new interagency Atrocities Prevention Board (APB) addresses a structural deficit our government has faced for decades across different presidential administrations: What options do we have beyond doing nothing and short of intervening militarily to prevent, deter, and end bloodshed against innocent civilians?
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/22/more_than_just_remembering


President Obama announced on Monday he will award a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, the former Polish officer who escaped Nazi imprisonment and provided first-hand accounts to the Western Allies of atrocities he witnessed in Warsaw.
http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/23/obama-to-award-medal-of-freedom-to-holocaust-resistance-figure/


PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCES GENOCIDE PREVENTION INITIATIVE AT UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM -- April 23, 2012
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/press/archives/detail.php?category=03-coc&content=2012-04-23


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1. Thank you bigtree

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2. my pleasure, livetohike

[Daniel537]

3. President Obama: "National sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.”

Couldn't have said it any better.

[annabanana]

4. I am so sorry. . .

The while I could listen, I heard it through the ears of Abu Graib and not "looking forward"

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5. VIDEO

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President Obama's Speech At The U.S. Holocaust Museum

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6. Thanks.

K & R

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7. ASIDE: Those images are HUGE. Your OP has ~4MB of pictures. Please resize using an...

...image hosting site like www.tinypic.com or something. I'm only bringing this up because this is the second time I've noticed you've unintentionally done it in an OP.

If you don't understand what I'm talking about, right-clicking on 7 of 8 of those images will show they're between 300-700k a piece and that their resolution is bigger than most desktop backgrounds.

It's really easy to re-host images you want to use and most pic hosting places will re-size images for you. I do it all the time and it's considerate.

If you need more help ask in H&M.

If you're going to keep doing it, a DIAL-UP WARNING is appropriate.

PB

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9. .

good now

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16. Thank you very much, it worked great for me.

I'm using a dialup connection now, and it didn't take long at all to download those pictures.

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18. cool

the mechanics get away from me sometimes . . .

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8. K&R

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10. I think the number who actually died in those camps was 10 million. And all because they were

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different.

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12. Do you mean 10 million?

In fact many more died. In Russia there was systematic genocide of all Jewish villages, and The Roma Gypsies as well as political prisoners, the mentally handicapped and homosexuals. The extermination camps were built specifically to kill Jews as part of the Reich's Final Solution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps

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13. Yes, sorry.

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11. K&R

[SleeplessinSoCal]

14. Sorely needed. Thank you for posting.

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15. Maybe now Greenwald will join with us.

Instead of trying to divide us.

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17. thank you...

powerful!... visited there last year... difficult to experience

just watched "In the Land of Blood and Honey" last night... again, difficult to watch but important...

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19. Remember this when the right-wingers try to portray Mr. Obama as 'hostile to Israel!'

That's one of their major initiatives this year!