“ It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time, where so many markers of human progress became tools of human depravity: science that can heal used to kill [, torture]; education that can enlighten used to rationalize away basic moral impulses; the bureaucracy that sustains modern life used as the machinery of mass death [and torture] — a ruthless, chillingly efficient system where many were responsible for the killing [and torture], but few got actual blood on their hands.
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President Obama’s speech for the Holocaust Remembrance ceremony, yesterday at the Capitol Rotunda
via Firedoglake
