Sunday, February 21, 2010

Fence sitters ...

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.

--German anti-Nazi activist Pastor Martin Niemöller

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