They came first for the Communists..

They came first for the Communists..

but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews...

but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Unionists...

but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Unionist.

Then they came for the Catholic...

but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me...

and by that time...

there was no-one left to speak up for me.

Rev. Martin Niemoller, commenting on events in Germany 1933-1939