CRYING FOR PARIS, THE FRENCH NATION AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE 13.11.2015

Originally from the Before the Cure archive

First they came for the Jews

and I did not speak out

because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists

and I did not speak out

because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists

and I did not speak out

because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left

to speak out for me.

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 –
6 March 1984) was a Protestant pastor and social activist