Never Forget... (Original Quote in Description)

This image is inspired by the words greeting the visitors of The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston.

 

“They came first for the Communists,

and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

 

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,

and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

 

Then they came for me,

and by that time no one was left to speak up.

 

Martin Niemöller

Lutheran Pastor

 

This statement, attributed to Pastor Niemöller, has become a legendary expression of the lesson of the Holocaust. Ironically Niemöller had delivered anti-Semitic sermons early in the Nazi regime. He later opposed Hitler and was sent to a concentration camp.”

 

The words above are those actually engraved on a stone at the Memorial.

 

I always keep this quote in mind because apathy and indifference are the path to injustice and oppression.

Never ever think the injustices suffered by other people don’t affect you: they affect all of us because in the moment we start to accept them they will be justified.

 

I know you expect, and most likely prefer lol, something happier and fun from my photos but for once I wanted to deliver a message of “civic engagement”.

 

I adapted the original quote to the “Brick universe” and told the story by the point of view of a not a Minifigure, the one from the last panel.

Even though the narrator Minifigure’ parts comes from The Lego Batman Dick Grayson (body from the collectible series and headpiece from the Catwoman set) with the addition of Captain Boomerang hat, it does not represent any specific character.

 

I will resume the ordinary parodies very soon :)

 

May the Brick be with You :)

 

Done