Martin Niemoller Quotes

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Martin Niemoller

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• Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

  

  Martin Niemoller