First read this quote attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller while visiting the Holocaust Museum in Boston, actually walking through the New England Holocaust Memorial, photo above. It has been in my mind ever since.
In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
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