I am looking for a poem for reference material for a term paper. The gist of the poem goes:

I stood by and said nothing when the Nazis came for the Jews, I stood by ...

Who will speak for me when they come?

I do not know the author or exact name - if anyone knows either, please provide the information.

THANKS

-- Lola Lucero (llucero@rurdev.usda.gov), March 30, 1999

Answers

When they came for the Fascists, I did not speak out ...for I was not a Fascist

When they came for the Communists, I did not speak out ...for I was not a Communist

When they came for the Catholics, Jews, Muslims and religious leaders of "Cults", I did not speak out.

Now they have come for me... ...and there is no one left to speak out..."

(Adapted from a quote in the National Holocaust Museum, Washington D.C.)

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), March 30, 1999.