Church Quote by Martin Niemoller

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“For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.”

Martin Niemoller

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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

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What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails…

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I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court…

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Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

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Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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