STRONG WORDS .... FOR ALL SOFT EGGS

 STRONG WORDS .... FOR ALL SOFT EGGS.....

A poem by Martin Niemoller (1892-1984).

He was a German Lutheran Pastor and anti - Nazi Theologian. He was famous for the following poem translated differently in  paraphrase.

" First they came for the communists                                                        

And I did not speak out                                                    

Because I was not a communist                                          

Then they came for the socialists                                              

And I  did not speak out                                                            

Because I was not a socialist                                   

Then they came for the trade unionists                         

And I did not speak out                                              

Because I was not a trade unionist                                   

Then they came for the Jews                                                

And I did not speak out                                                                 

Because I was not a Jew                                    

Then they came for me                                                 

And there was no one left                                        

To speak out for me" 

"When the Nazis brought the Communists 

I kept quiet; I wasn't  a communist. 

When you captured the Social Democrats, 

I was silent ; I was not a Social Democrat. 

When they took the trade unionists, 

I did not protest ; I was not a trade unionist. 

When they brought the Jews, 

I did not protest ; 

I wasn't a Jew. 

When they took me, 

There was no one else who protested... "