Re: Stand up

["Jackie Leve" <flutterby@danyi.com>]

http://www.home.inreach.com/lopezfam/FirstJews.html
"First they came for the Jews" by Martin Niemöller
--The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church
who spent seven years in a concentration camp
Killerbutterfly
www.killerbutterfly.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Pierre Malraison <pierremal@yahoo.com>
To: <quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [QRList] Stand up
>
> http://www.wsnet.com/%7Ellangdon/niemoeller.html
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> They first 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 trade
> unionists and I didn't speak up -
> because I wasn't a trade unionist.
>
> 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 no one
> was left to speak up.
>
>
> --- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <quotation-ring@gunnar.cc>
> wrote:
> >
> > Here is another one, less specific this time...  Any
> > leads about the
> > complete/exact wording, source etc.?
> >
> > They came for them and I didnt stand up and they
> > came for
> > other people and I didnt stand up and then they
> > came for me
> > and there was no one left to speak up.
> >
> > / Gunnar
> >
> >
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