In Germany, they first came after communists,

I didn't speak, because I'm not a communist party member.

Then they came after the Jews,

I didn't speak because I'm not Jewish.

Then they went after union members,

I didn't speak because I'm not a member of the trade union.

Then they went after Catholics,

I didn't speak because I was a Protestant.

Then they came to me,

But by that time, no one had come forward to speak.

Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1945

In Germany,

At first they came after communists, but I didn't speak-because I'm not a communist;

Then they came after the Jews, and I didn't speak-because I'm not Jewish;

Later, they came after union members, and I didn't speak-because I'm not a union member;

After that, they came after Catholics, and I didn't speak-because I was a Protestant;

Finally, they came to me, but no one stood up for me anymore.

Martinimola

The author of this "short poem" is a priest. His name is Martin Niemoller. This priest was a religious leader in Germany before World War II, and he made immortal contributions to the moral reconstruction of German society after World War II. At that time, Nemola was personally ordered by Hitler to be sent to a concentration camp because of his opposition to Hitler's Jewish policy and control of the German church, and finally escaped the persecution of the Nazis with the help of the just forces of all parties. This short poem was written when he repented of his moral stain in his later years. Later, people regarded it as an "inscription" engraved on the Jewish Holocaust Monument in Boston, USA.

This "inscription" really has profound implications and brilliantly expounds the dialectical unity relationship between justice and evil, self and society, helping others and being helped. In today's society, if a person, a group, a political party and even a country only care about their own interests and don't pay even a little price for social justice, then they will suffer in the end and be punished.

The law of human communication is often like this: how you treat others, others will treat you; A person who never wants to pay and sacrifice for others will never sacrifice for you. Today, others are in trouble, we don't help them, and tomorrow we are in trouble, and others sit idly by; If countries that are friendly to us encounter economic difficulties today and foreign enemies invade us and hide, then tomorrow we will encounter natural and man-made disasters, and other countries will sit idly by.

In fact, everyone, every political party and every nation should not choose "silence" before justice, but must choose "courage"; You shouldn't choose to "step back", but you must choose to "step forward". Only in this way can the world have truth; Only in this way can there be justice in the world. Friends on MS, are you right?