Udala chaa, cha, cha cha (nda)
Nwunye nna m oh (nda)
gote udala n'afia (nda)
nye'm ojuu (nda)
enuwa bu olili (nda)
onye tosia onaba (nda)
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"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
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 Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
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