"Weren't you listening?"...many people weren't....many now are awake....many still sleeping-complacency:
"First 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 no…
"Weren't you listening?"...many people weren't....many now are awake....many still sleeping-complacency:
"First 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 for me,"
Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984, a German Lutheran pastor (also a Nazi sympathizer for the radical-right, until he spoke out against Hitler) reflectively wrote this after the Holocaust, and remembering his own, as well as others', failure to speak out against the persecution of groups targeted by the Nazi regime. He spent several years in a Nazi prisons and concentration.
Are we checking our own humanity, or blindly, blocking it?
"Weren't you listening?"...many people weren't....many now are awake....many still sleeping-complacency:
"First 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 for me,"
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists
Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984, a German Lutheran pastor (also a Nazi sympathizer for the radical-right, until he spoke out against Hitler) reflectively wrote this after the Holocaust, and remembering his own, as well as others', failure to speak out against the persecution of groups targeted by the Nazi regime. He spent several years in a Nazi prisons and concentration.
Are we checking our own humanity, or blindly, blocking it?