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Support and Care for Our Immigrants– They are Our Firsts:

“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 of the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.
And then they came for me, and there was no one to speak out for me.”

Martin Niemõller (1992-1984) was a Lutheran pastor in Germany. He sympathized with many Nazi and right wing ideas before Adolf Hitler came to power.  Once Hitler came to power, he became an outspoken critic, and from 1937 to 1945 he was imprisoned in Nazi prisons and concentration camps.  In his public speeches after the war, he often shared various versions of the above confession.

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