| "First they came ..." is a famous statement attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (18921984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. |
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Nothing has changed today, except it is the
American "Good Christian" Republicans that are coming after us. |
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Indians,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't there.
THEN THEY Enslaved the Blacks,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't old there.
THEN THEY CAME for the Koreans, and put many of them in concentration camps,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't old enough.
THEN THEY CAME for the Gays,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't gay.
THEN THEY CAME for the Mexicans and Hispanics,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Mexican or Hispanics.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
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