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‘When They Came For Me There Was No One Left To Speak Out’
When they came for the Jews, I did not speak out; I was not a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out. Friedrich Gustav Martin Niemöller’s words, uttered more than 50 years ago, ring with an ominous clarity as we watch the slow evisceration of orthodox Episcopalians in the American Episcopal Church.

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First they came … – Wikipedia
First they came … is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. It is about the silence of German intellectuals and certain clergy—including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself—following the Nazis’ rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Many variations and adaptations in the spirit of the original have been published in the English language. It deals with …

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Martin Niemöller: First they came for the Socialists…
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller This quote is attributed to the prominent German pastor Martin Niemöller. It is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a poem. After World War II, Niemöller openly spoke about his own early complicity in Nazism and his eventual change of heart.

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‘Then They Came For Me – And There Was No One Left To Speak … – Forbes
2 mai 2020Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me. With these words Martin Niemoller criticized our silence in the eyes of evil, silence that amounts to complicity…

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China and Human Rights: ‘Then They Came For Me, And There Was No One …
(OPINION) Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. With these words Martin Niemoller criticized our silence in the eyes of evil, silence that amounts to complicity in the crimes. These words are as relevant now as they were during War World II. These words are also relevant in the case of human rights violations in China.

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When they came for me, no one was left to speak up
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not one. Then (finally) they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. To quote the sage, Yogi Berra, It’s déjà vu all over again. Vigorous public opposition and unmistakable consequences for inexcusable evil deter miscreants. Timidity and procrastination do not.

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Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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First they came . . . by Martin Niemoller – Shenandoah
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. — Martin Niemöller The author was a Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Germany in 1892. This quotation and many variations of it appeared in his public addresses in the 1930’s, and in the 50’s people began to line it out as poetry, which further boosted its popularity.

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First They Came by Pastor Martin Neimöller – Poem Analysis
By the end of the poem, the violence makes its way to the speaker and there is no one left to stand up for him. Structure of First They Came ‘First They Came’ by Pastor Martin Neimöller is a fifteen line excerpt from a speech made by the pastor. The lines do not follow a specific rhyme scheme, although there are similarities in the endings used.

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they came for Communists… I did not speak out – Age-of-the-Sage
When they came for me, there was no one left who could protest. Our German visitor’s e-mail, sent in the hope of establishing greater precision, further suggests that although Niemoller may have himself translated or restated the saying later with some mention of the Jews his original formulation was perhaps aimed at political and not social organizations. We hope to investigate this matter …

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