First they came for the Communists
First they 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 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 up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
