I Didn’t Speak Up
“In Germany, the Nazis 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 there was no one left to speak for me.”
–Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a German Lutheran pastor who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938
Obtained from www.TheAbsurdReport.com