“First they came for the Jews” is a poem written by Martin Niemoller in 1946, after he was in a concentration camp during WW II due to him being a Christian. He wrote this poem to say how selfish he was to not speak up for the other people that Hitler targeted and then when he was the target, there was no one left to speak up for him since he did not speak up for others. The author writes, “They came for the Jews/ and I did not speak up/ because I was not a Jew” (Line 1-3) which is him saying he doesn’t care that the Jews were being targeted because he wasn’t a Jew himself, and he didn’t need to worry about being taken away, but when he says that “they came for me/ and there was no one left/ to speak up for me” (Line 10-12), it means that he couldn’t fight injustice because he didn’t speak up for the others that were also in the same situation as him. “First they came for the Jews” indicates that one can fight injustice by first speaking up and caring for others who are also dealing with injustice.
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