Tina Winterlik: WHEN WILL YOU SPEAK UP?

Saturday, February 27, 2016

WHEN WILL YOU SPEAK UP?

First They Came for..

"First they came for the writers, but I didn't speak up because I was not a writer. Then they came for the students, but I didn't speak up because I was not a student. They came for musicians, but I didn't speak up because I was not a musician. And then they came for the greeks, the muslims, the trade-unionists, the christians, and the jews. The travellers, homosexuals, the journalists, the artists, the doctors, the philosophers, the economists, the anarchists, and the politicians, the nerds, europeans, the americans, the communists, the hackers, illegals, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't any of them. And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak up for me.

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"First they came ..." is a famous statement and provocative poem written by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the cowardice of German intellectuals following the Nazis' rise to power and the subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Many variations and adaptations in the spirit of the original have been published in the English language. It deals with themes of persecution, guilt and responsibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...