The need for speaking up?

In Germany they came first 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 no one was left to speak up.

Martin Niemoeller, anti-Nazi pastor