“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because

I was not a Jew.  Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out

because I was not a Communist. …Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

I am always haunted by these words of Rev. Fredrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller, delivered in his last sermon before he was incarcerated by the Nazis in 1937.  They are a reminder of how fragile freedom is, and a warning of what can happe...