Our Mission

The Niemöller Society was founded with a simple mission:

To preserve democracy and the rights of vulnerable people.

What could be more important than that? It lies at the core of all that is good about our nation. It is not a partisan mission. It's about decency, respect and being a kind human being. It's about the belief that everyone's voice should be heard, even if we don't like what they have to say.

It's imperfect, and yet, we, as a nation, have aspired for a more enlightened way of being. You see it in the Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

You see it in the Gettysburg Address:

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Nothing is more fundamentally American than the belief that we are all created equal. And so, as part of our mission, we choose to defend the very fabric of our nation.