LETTERS

Then they came for me

Posted 12/27/22

To the Editor,

Thank you Samantha Grabelle for organizing the candlelight vigil last Thursday to express community solidarity against the recent “hate” flyers distributed in Oakland …

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LETTERS

Then they came for me

Posted

To the Editor,

Thank you Samantha Grabelle for organizing the candlelight vigil last Thursday to express community solidarity against the recent “hate” flyers distributed in Oakland Beach.(Beacon 12/22/22)
I think that shrugging our shoulders and looking the other way just encourage hate to flourish. It invites complicity through silence as Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran minister in Nazi Germany, reminds us through his words:


“First they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me”


Diane Greenwald
Warwick

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