Saturday, July 11, 2009

They Came First

THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist

THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was Protestant

THEN THEY CAME for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up

--- Pastor Martin Niemoller

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