On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'
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This weekend, our hearts are with the people of San Bernardino - another American community shattered by unspeakable violence. We salute the first responders - the police, the SWAT teams, the EMTs - who responded so quickly, with such courage, and saved lives. We pray for the injured as they fight to recover from their wounds.
Barack Obama
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
Friedrich Schiller