They came first for the gun owners, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a gun owner; And then they came for the smokers, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a smoker; And then they came for the gas guzzlers, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a gas guzzler; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
loosely based on a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller
They came first for the gun owners, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a gun owner; And then they came for the smokers, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a smoker; And then they came for the gas guzzlers, And I didn't speak ...