salvadorans and the africans and then they came for me. we are at a really tough moment in american history. we really have to stand for the values that make this country who we are. and what every single one of us is, an immigrant. we are at a tough moment in our nation s history and this week does feel like a president that is coming off the rails. ambassador wendy sherman, malcolm and raul, thanks to all of you for this. it s not about politics. it s about decency. what we have seen in the last 24 hours, what has me the most upset. i don t want this to be in the history books that my children are going to grow up with. we do roses and thorns. the worst part of your day and the best part of my day. in front of my kids, i couldn t tell them what the worst part of my day was and it was the president of the united states who did. and that s not politics, that s just sad. we only hope this will be an
he said first they came for the socialists, and i did not speak out because i was not a socialist. then they came for the trade unioners. 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. and then they came for me. and there was no one left to speak for me. reflections of doing not the wrong, but the right thing. and that s it for our program tonight. remember, you can always see our show online, listen on our podcast and follow me on facebook and twitter. thank you for watching, and good night from new york.
what they need to do is unequivocally state that one of their candidates for president would not support this man if he were the nominee, and every one of them continues to have raised the right hand and stand by that pledge to support this man if he is their nominee. and you know, the poem that that came after world war ii and the holocaust that said, that talks about i didn t speak up, and then they came for me, applies here. and we are speaking up, and we will continue to speak up. and let me ask you this, because the argument that you just made was echoed by hillary clinton on the campaign trail yesterday in effect saying that all tof the republican candidates, that it is a product of the campaign as a whole, and not just one candidate. that is right. and i wonder what you think needs to be said and what phrase is necessary for them to say, because some were quick, jeb bush and others were quick to come out to say i don t
i didn t speak up because i wasn t a jew. and then they came for me and by that time, no one was left to speak up. the pastor s words are well known but their context are not well understood. he wasn t speaking abstractly. he witnessed persecution, act acquiesced to it and fell victim to it. he welcomed the fall of german democracy and the rise of hitler and had few qualms about the beginning of the holocaust until he himself was arrested for supporting it in insufficiently. his confessional warning came first in a speech in frankfurt in january, 1946, eight months after he had been liberated by american troops. he had been detained for seven years. he survived the death camps. in quoting him, i make no direct comparison between the attempts to suppress the building of a religious muslim center in downtown manhattan and the unimaginable nightmare of the holocaust. such a comparison is ludicrous,
i didn t speak up because i wasn t a jew. and then they came for me and by that time, no one was left to speak up. the pastor s words are well known but their context are not well understood. he wasn t speaking abstractly. he witnessed persecution, acquiesced to it and fell victim to it. he welcomed the fall of german democracy and the rise of hitler and had few qualms about the beginning of the holocaust until he himself was arrested for supporting it in insufficiently. his confessional warning came first in a speech in frankfurt in january, 1946, eight months after he had been liberated by american troops. he had been detained for seven years. he survived the death camps. in quoting him, i make no direct comparison between the attempts to suppress the building of a religious muslim center in downtown manhattan and the unimaginable nightmare of the holocaust. such a comparison is ludicrous,