Voice of the Day: Martin Niemöller
07-27-2009
They came first 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 no one was left to speak up.
- Martin Niemöller,
German theologian and pastor (1892-1984)
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