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"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 the came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, but 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."
 By: | Reverend Martin Niemoeller (more quotes by Reverend Martin Niemoeller or books by/about Reverend Martin Niemoeller) |
| (1892-1984) German Lutheran pastor, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the allied forces in 1945. |
Source: | paraphrased and inscribed at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts |
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