Author: Martin Niemöller
Brief Info: German theologian and Lutheran pastor
Years Lived: 1892-1984
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Quotations
First they came...
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.