Congressman Mark Kirk on Bipartisan Resolution for Baha’is
BIPARTISAN RESOLUTION CONDEMNING IRAN’S PERSECUTION OF BAHA’IS
HON. MARK STEVEN KIRK of Illinois in the House of Representatives – Friday, February 13, 2009
”In Germany, they first came for the gypsies, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a gypsy. Then they came for the Bolsheviks, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Bolshevik. 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. I didn’t speak up then because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up.”
–Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran pastor arrested by the Gestapo in 1937.
Mr. KIRK. Madam Speaker, then they came for the Baha’is.
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