Around the height of the Nazi period, he started repeating the verse, "First they came for the communists, and I did nothing, did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Ne kulmin e periudhes naziste, ai filloi te perseriste vargjet, "Ne fillim ata erdhen per komunistet, dhe une nuk bera gje, nuk fola sepse une nuk isha komunist.