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Memory and Survival

May 30, 2010 - 5:34 am - by Richard Fernandez
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2010-05-30 07:00:37

In Germany, they 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 they came for the trade unionists, . . . . Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, but there was no one left to speak up for me.

—Martin Neimöller