Because I was not a bee.
And then they came for the butterflies,
Because I was not a butterfly.
And then they came for the rivers that dried out,
Because I was not a river.
And then they came for the children in Flint,
Because I was not a child, forced to drink leaded water in Michigan.
And then they came for the poor and uninsured,
Because I was not poor and uninsured.
And then they came for the retired and the old,
A longer version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the UK government, below:[4]
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then 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.
