MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 28 days agoAsk the Kamala voters in your lifemessage-squaremessage-square412fedilinkarrow-up1175file-text
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minus-squareMeh [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up69·edit-228 days agoComrade, if you’re going to use this poem, please do not omit the original first line. “First they came for the Communists, And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist.”
minus-squarebubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·27 days agoThank you, edited. I could not remember the exact wording and the first verbatim quote of it I could find was this one and did not contain the line. On retrospect I see it was from the US Holocaust Museum so of course. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists
Comrade, if you’re going to use this poem, please do not omit the original first line.
“First they came for the Communists, And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist.”
Thank you, edited. I could not remember the exact wording and the first verbatim quote of it I could find was this one and did not contain the line. On retrospect I see it was from the US Holocaust Museum so of course.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists