Obama at the Holocaust Museum

When I visited the Holocaust Museum I was incredibly sobered and impressed with the facts that not only were Jews and Gypsies and homosexuals persecuted and killed under the Hitler regime but also the Freemasons. I came away from both experiences changed in my perceptions and attitude towards human evil.

"To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened - who perpetrate every form of intolerance — racism, antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, and more — hatred that degrades its victim and diminishes us all. Today, and every day we have an opportunity, as well as an obligation to confront these scourges. To fight the impulse to turn the channel when we see images that disturb us, or wrap ourselves in the false comforts that others' sufferings are not our own..

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