Author: Pastor Martin Niemoller
A HEAVY SILENCE
“They came for the communists and I did not speak up because
I was not a communist.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak up because
I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak up because
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics and I did not speak up because
I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me – and by that time there was no one left to speak”
By Pastor Martin Niemoller in Germany in 1942.