I’ve been thinking a lot about Martin Niemöller lately. The name of this German Lutheran pastor might not ring a bell, but you are likely familiar with his most famous work. Published as a prose ...

A paraphrase of German theologian Martin Niemöller’s famous 1946 poem: First he came for the judges And I did not speak out Because I am not a judge. Then he came for the journalists And I did not ...

Written by a German pastor, Martin Niemoller, in the mid-1900s, the poem below cautions us that through silence, indifference and inaction we are complicit in our government’s actions. In these coming ...

I regularly revisit the famous Pastor Martin Niemoeller poem from the Nazi era as his words remain resonant in our post-9/11, “war on terror” world. Over the last week threads of various alarming ...

German Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller wrote a poem in 1946, one version of which is posted in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak ...

Since Nov. 6, the 1946 poem, "First They Came," by Pastor Martin Niemoller, has been in my head. Dreadful, dark thoughts swirled as I wondered if I wanted to live in this world where too many voters ...

Inspired by the poem by Reverend Martin Niemoller of the same name, First They Came for...is set in a not so distant future where a nondescript regime takes away innocent people while one man ...

Martin Niemoeller’s poem criticized the Germans’ silent complicity in response to the purge of all persons the Nazis classified as untermenschen. Given the current disregard for the 4th and 14th ...