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RELIGION IS A CHOICE; SEXUALITY, GENDER, & RACE ARE NOT CHOICES
People Doomed People to This Fate
"Work Sets You Free, Through Crematorium Number Three"
Death was their reward after the horrors of the Nazi occupation and life in a concentration camp at the hands of people who believed they had no intrinsic value.
We are Stronger Together — The Division Is Meant To Weaken Us
Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. He wrote his famous poem about the rise of the Nazis and the silence of the "intellectuals" and the clergy.
First They Came…
by Martin Niemöller
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,