[LINK] Can someone provide a quotation please

Craig Sanders cas at taz.net.au
Fri Dec 15 06:37:36 AEDT 2006


On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:21:56AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> There's a passage that goes something like: "First they took our ???, 
> but I didn't speak out because..."


First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I
was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not
speak out - because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not
a Jew; Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out
for me.

 -- Martin Neimoller


very commonly quoted in RL, even more so on the net.  many sites about it and
about Neimoller.  try http://www.veni.com/articles/firsttheycameforme.html
to start with, which gives a bio of Neimoller and ends up disputing that he
ever wrote the poem.


craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)



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