As Niemöller's haunting poem reminds us, silence in the face of injustice paves the way for broader persecution. Today's ...

As a Jewish child growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust and the McCarthy era, the son of a union leader, and as a ...

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984 ... He is best known for his poem, “First They came.” With thanks to Niemöller, this is my adaptation based on our current situation in the United States.

After World War II, German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller famously said, “First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the ...

Both quotes deliberately recall the famous 1946 poem “First They Came . . .” by Martin Niemöller. In it, Niemöller bemoans the German people’s silence during the Nazis’ rise to power.

“First They Came” is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. The original poem explained how Hitler and the Nazis came to power.

The op-ed by former longtime UAB Health System CEO Will Ferniany was styled after the “First They Came for the Jews” poem by German pastor Martin Niemöller that addressed how failing to ...