An Elephant at Udawalawa

Swimming Elephant

A poem of Martin Niemoller

First they came for the communists,
and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist;

Then 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 out for me.

-Martin Niemoller-