If not us, who? If not now, when?

by jota

Posted to Utterances on 2002-12-19 14:07:00

“In Germany the Nazis first came for the Communists and I didn’t object because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t object because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t object because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t object because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me.”

-Pastor Martin Niemoller, Dachau, Germany, 1941

you writer friends of mine
don’t neglect the signs of the times
that ever so unseen creep of fascism
and all that with it comes
who is America? what is America
what good is a free country
if you can’t be free in it?