FIRST THEY CAME

FIRST THEY CAME

First they came for the socialists,

and I didn’t speak up,

because I wasn’t a socialist.

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 Jews,

and I didn’t speak up,

because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me,

and there was no one left

to speak up for me. 

Pastor Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller