QUOTATION BY MARTIN NIEMOLLER, A LUTHERAN PASTOR ARRESTED BY THE GESTAPO IN 1937:

  "In Germany, they first came for the gypsies, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a gypsy.  Then they came for the Bolsheviks, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Bolshevik.  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. I didn't speak up then because I was a Protestant.  Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up."

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