Portable Wisdom

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.

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