Showing posts with label Martin Niemöller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin Niemöller. Show all posts

Thursday, April 29, 2010

What is happening to us?


"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..."