First they came for the undocumented
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First they came for the undocumented
And I did not speak out
Because I had my papers
Then they came for legal migrants
But I was not a migrant...
Then they came for naturalized citizens
But I was born here...
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me. -
Adapted from "First They Came" by Martin Niemöller.
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Harold Marcuse: "Right after the war in 1946 he wanted his German audiences to admit that they had failed morally, to accept their responsibility for the mass atrocities committed by their Nazi government in their name."
Niemöller, origin of famous quotation "First they came for the Communists..."
This page pursues the origin of the quotation 'First they came for the communists, but I wasn't a communist, ...', by Martin Niemoeller. It was compiled by Harold Marcuse, a professor of German history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
(marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu)
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