Thursday, February 23, 2006
Niemoeller's Poem
First they came for the Communists,
but I was not a Communist, so I didn't speak out.
Then they came for the Social Democrats,
but I was not a Social Democrat, so I didn't speak out.
Then came the trade unionists,
but I was not a trade unionist, so I didn't speak out.
Then they came for the Jews,
but I was not a Jew, so I didn't speak out.
Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.
-Pastor Niemoeller, protestant minister and victim of the Nazis
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First they came for the Communists,
but I was not a Communist, so I didn't speak out.
Then they came for the Social Democrats,
but I was not a Social Democrat, so I didn't speak out.
Then came the trade unionists,
but I was not a trade unionist, so I didn't speak out.
Then they came for the Jews,
but I was not a Jew, so I didn't speak out.
Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.
-Pastor Niemoeller, protestant minister and victim of the Nazis
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