Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Who Will be left when they come for you?

“They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't 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 Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up.”_ M. Niemoeller

No, I am not a communist, nor a socialist...but every time i read this quote, I wonder if people are not letting history repeat itself...stupidly off course. Today, we are so absolved with ourselves, and the idea of ourselves that we have let people die, and stood on the sidelines while innocent lives were lost.
today its the Muslims, the "poor", or the educated....if it is not one group it is the other.
We hate each other, and we encourage the hate. Sometimes I wonder, if we don't speak up now, if you don't speak up now...who will be left to speak for you?

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