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Then They Came For Me
June 16, 2010 in author, Cara Reynolds, cause, education, Faith, God, Human Rights, Humane, Injustice | Tags: anti-nazi, Cara Reynolds, catholics, german, germany, Jew, Martin Niemöller, protestant, trade unionists | by La Mushpa | Leave a comment

Martin Niemöller, a German theologian and pastor, on a visit to the United States after the war. A leader of the anti-Nazi Confessing Church, he spent the last 7 years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. United States, October 4, 1946.
In Germany, 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 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 up.
—Martin Niemöller
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-Cara
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