The final paragraph is redolent of Pastor Martin Niemöller’s 1946 confession engraved in stone at the entrance to the New England Holocaust Memorial, in Boston, Massachusetts:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.