"THEY CAME FIRST 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 me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
~Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984),
in a January 6, 1946 speech before representatives of the Confessing Church in Frankfurt.
Could we paraphrase this famous quote?
"They came for the Mexicans,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Mexican..."
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Mexican..."
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