Speak up for your own life

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.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945