“When the Nazis came for the socialists,
I remained silent;
I was not a socialist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Catholics,
I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.”
Pastor Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller
This quote always came to mind when someone would bring up Obama’s tax plan on the “rich”