First they came for Black children
And I did not speak out
Because I believed the rubbish about them being narco-terrorists.
Then they came for Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Syrian, Kashmiri, Rohingya, Uyghur, Yemeni, Somali, Venezuelan, Hong Kong, Central African children
And I did not speak out
Because they live too far away from me to care & were probably “US regime-change operations” anyway.
Then they came for refugee children
And I did not speak out
Because I was waiting for someone else to organize a protest movement.
Then they came for me.
And there was no one left to speak out for me
Because not even God gave a damn about someone indifferent & passive about oppression, but especially about those who justify it.
–an update of Martin Niemöller’s iconic protest