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1. First they came...
Thu Jun 7, 2012, 08:55 PM
Jun 2012


First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

From Wikipedia:

"First they came…" is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6

Dang - I'm doing an awful lot of wikipedia-ing today...

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