Poem by Martin Niemoller – German Pastor & Theologian

Poem is by Martin Niemöller was a German pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an anti-Communist and supported Hitler’s rise to power at first. But when Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. Unlike Niemöller, they gave in to the Nazis’ threats. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. His crime was “not being enthusiastic enough about the Nazi movement.” Niemöller was released in 1945 by the Allies.  

His  statement, sometimes presented as a poem, is well-known, frequently quoted, and is a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy, as it often begins with specific and targeted fear and hatred which soon escalates out of control.

“First they came for the communists, and

I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me”.

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The Book List – Part 1

Hello friends & critics

I would like to share a list of good books, that I have read over the years.

• Gandhi: A Pictorial Biography– Gerald Gold & Richard Attenborough (Newmarket Press)
  

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• Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do – Robert H. Schuller
• A Year of Growing Rich. 52 Steps to Achieving Life’s Rewards – Napoleon Hill
• Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
• Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography by Eberhard Bethge
• Anger – Thich Nhat Hanh
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
• The Invisible Constitution – Laurence H. Tribe (Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, has taught at its Law School since 1968 and was voted the best professor by the graduating class of 2000).
• America’s Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar (Professor Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University).
• Jailed Without Crime – M. L. Kak
• Delhi – Khushwant Singh
• A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
• The Outsider – Albert Camus

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