Lyrics to If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next by Manic Street Preachers from the This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more! We have the answer. General Comment"If you tolerate this your children will be next" is a phrase applicable to many events in history.The British government effectively supported Franco by pretending there was a "blockade" of Spain and no arms could be provided "to either side". The future teaches you to be alone The present to be afraid and cold So if I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists Lyrics to 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' by Manic Street Preachers. Kamran from London, United Kingdom Yes the title is taken from a poster of a child suffering in the foreground under a sky of nationalist bombers and underneath it reads 'if you tolerate this then your children will be next'. What does Manic Street Preachers's song If You Tolerate this Your Children will be Next mean?