"With Knowledge Comes Responsibility" was the ennobling mantra that echoed throughout the evening at Holocaust Museum Houston's annual Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award Dinner. Award recipient Mia Farrow, dinner chairs Andrea White and Alan Crain and museum chair Michael Goldberg reiterated the point throughout the evening.

Most in the audience of 860, filling the Hilton Americas-Houston ballroom, nodded again and again in accord. None were more passionate in their approval of the message than the dozen or so Holocaust survivors and the children of survivors who were seated around the vast dinner venue. Also in attendance were survivors from the waves of genocide in Bosnia, Cambodia, Sudan, Rawanda and other areas, all of whom stood for recognition.

Farrow was recognized for her role as a tireless humanitarian and advocate for women and children in crises zones in Africa, a lifetime commitment that earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is today best known for her on-going efforts to bring worldwide attention to the genocide in Darfur and to inspire action to stop the slaughter.

"The true impediment to a better world is apathy," Farrow said.

Wearing little makeup and a simple black pants ensemble with jacket and sensible shoes, Farrow was every bit the soft-spoken activitist, her camera-friendy countenance and flowing blonde coif a visual counterpoint to the seriousness of her message and the harshness of the subject.

"What is required now is the will of the international community to protect the world from mass atrocity crimes and genocide," she said.

She pointed to the current political and media focus on Libya and efforts to aid that country's people adding, "That's great. But I don't hear anyone doing anything for the people of Darfur."

Shahla and Hushang Ansary served as honorary chairs of the evening that brought in $1.1 million for museum programs.

Museum supporters attending included a host of notables such as Mayor Annise Parker and Kathy Hubbard, Sue and Lester Smith, Lorraine and Ed Wulfe, Kay and Fred Zeidman, Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff, Joan and Stanford Alexander, Soraya and Scott McClelland, Tali and Eric Blumrosen, Kelli Cohen Fein and Martin Fein, Arthur Schechter, Lily and Charles Foster, Gordon Quan, Punkin and Walter Hecht, Regina Rogers and museum executive director Susan Myers.

Also in the mix was former Minnesota Tim Pawlenty, who is exploring a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.