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"Prima, vennero a prendere i comunisti, e non dissi nulla perché non ero comunista. Poi, portarono via gli ebrei, e rimasi in silenzio perché non ero ebreo. Dopo, arrestarono i sindacalisti, ma tenni la bocca chiusa perché non ero sindacalista. Alla fine, vennero a prendere me, ma non c’era più nessuno che potesse dire qualcosa."

« First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me. »

Martin Niemoeller