If you do not speak up, who will? Next time, it will be you the injustice is upon.

An important lesson- If you don’t speak up because it doesn’t affect you, you’re incorrect. Next time, the injustice may be thrust upon you, or everyone.

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Martin Niemöller’s lines, written just after the Holocaust, argued against apathy—and for the moral connectedness of all people.

These words are a reference to the Holocaust. It is also, however, a warning about the ease with which such an event could occur again, if we of the present allow ourselves to become ignorant of the lessons of the past.

Credit to: https://www.paih.org/first-they-came-the-poem-of-protest