"First they came for the Jews"






In Germany they first came 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 a Protestant.
Then they came for me
  and by that time no one was left to speak up.
--The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent seven years in a concentration camp.


The Reverend Martin Niemöller's reconstructed cell in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.
Photo credit: Florida Center for Instructional Technology

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