Martin Niemöller’s confession speech in 1946. His words were given poetic form and now adorn several Holocaust museums. Martin said that when they came for the socialists, he did not speak because he was not a socialist. Then they came for the communists, the trade unionists, then the Jews, and he was not a communist, a trade unionist, nor a Jew, and he did not speak. The last line haunts the heart. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
