
The Poet
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Guess who?
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The second came from Austrian born German politician, Chancellor and Führer und Reichskanzler of Germany, Adolph Hitler (1889 - 1945).
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