How To Learn Mrs Vandertramp

a minute to reflect

" First they came for the gypsies,
and I was glad, for stealing.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I said nothing because I was being disagreeable.

Then they came for the homosexuals,

and I was relieved, because I was annoying.

Then they came for the Communists,

and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.

One day they came for me,

and there was nobody left to protest . "

German poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoller, Berlin 1932.

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