How many helpless victims have to suffer
Before the people rise up against injustice ?
How long can you count your money,
And contemplate your ipod -
Before you suddenly realize that
What has happened to others,
Is about to happen to you?
First they came 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 the Catholics,
And 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.
Pastor Martin Neimoller
World War II
How long can you be neutral and silent ?
SILENCE IMPLIES CONSENT
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