German Lutheran pastor Leonard Niemöller may be best remembered for this quotation:
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.
Niemöller was writing about the Third Reich.
Now the Chinese Communist Party is starting a new poem, but with video-gamers in the first line, as this article shows:
