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Title: They First Came For....
Author: Wayne Price
Date: March 25, 2007
Language: en
Topics: Fascism, USA
Source: http://anarkismo.net/article/5193
Notes: Based on Martin Niemoeller’s well-known statement about Nazi persecution, which begins, “They first came for the Communists and I did not speak up—because I wasn’t a Communist.”

Wayne Price

They First Came For....

They first came for the immigrants, and I did not speak up—because my

family had not been immigrants for three generations.

Then they came for the U.S. Muslims and Arab-Americans, and I did not

speak up—because I did not want anyone to think I was sympathetic to

“terrorism.”

Then they came for the African-Americans, shot them down in the streets

and put thousands of their young men in prison, but I did not speak

up—because I did not want to look “soft on crime.”

Then they came for the Gays and Lesbians, and I did not speak up—because

I did not want anyone to think I was Gay.

Then they came for the atheists and secularists, and I did not speak

up—because atheists are even more unpopular than Gays.

Then they came for the union organizers, and I did not speak up—because

many people said that unions were “out of date” and “no longer needed.”

Then they came for environmental activists and animal liberationists,

and I did not speak up—because I did not approve of some of their

tactics.

Then they came for the trouble makers, rabble rousers, antiwar

activists, women liberationists, anarchists, socialists, civil

libertarians, enemies of the state, prison abolitionists, and other

disturbers of the comfortable, and I did not speak up—because I did not

want any trouble.

Then they came for me—and by that time no one was left to speak up.