His thoughts on Cowardly Silence - Ralph Chaplin, 1887-1961

*Mourn not the dead that in the cold earth lie -
Dust unto dust -
The calm, sweet earth that mothers all who die
As all men must.

But rather mourn the apathetic throng -
The cowed and the meek -
Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong
And dare not speak*.

Ralph Chaplin, 1887-1961,

Chicago labor activist, particularly in IWW -Industrial Workers of the World.
That verse also sums up the lethal silence of the majority of Germans, and their clergy, in the face of the Nazi advance, a silence echoed to-day among those who ignore or deny the threat of the fanatical fringe, the TAKFIRI JIHADIS, who are the COMMON enemy of freedom and democracy for Muslims as well as for the rest of humanity.