First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews

and I did not speak out

because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the

Communists

and I did not speak out

because I was not a

Communist.

Then they came for the trade

unionists

and I did not speak out

because I was not a trade

unionist.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left

to speak out for me.

-Pastor Martin Niemoller