sportage
Lifer
Considering all he smoke over this and that coming from the republican candidates this cycle. Whether it be same sex marriage, or women's rights, or birth control, or religion, or attending a college, or home schooling, or class warfare, or you name it...
I thought the poem quoted below was worth remembering.
Because while today the hoopla might be over some issue you are willing to sign on to, tomorrow it may not be.
I thought the poem quoted below was worth remembering.
Because while today the hoopla might be over some issue you are willing to sign on to, tomorrow it may not be.
-- by Martin Niemöller, prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, best known as the author of the poem First they came....
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."