Friday, March 11, 2005

First They Came for the Communists....

From Capitol Hill Blue....

Maybe we should remember these words:

First they 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 Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.

---- The Rev. Martin Niemoller wrote those words in Germany in 1945. An early supporter of Adolph Hitler, he realized, too late, his terrible error.

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