Truth

A statement made by Pastor Martin Niemoller at the time of his arrest by the Nazi Gestapo in the late 1930s: “In Germany, 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.”