They came for the Jews and I said nothing because I wasn't a Jew...
Then they came for the mentally infirm and I said nothing because I wasn't mentally infirm...
Then they came for the sick and decrepit and I said nothing because I wasn't sick and decrepit...
Then they came for the Gypsies and I said nothing because I wasn't a Gypsy...
Then they came for the communists and socialists and I said nothing because I was neither a communist nor a socialist...
And finally they came for you and me but there wasn't anyone left to speak out and up for us...
Postscript:
Admittedly I'd concede a rather imprecise rendition of that famous, memorable sentiment (but best available recollection for the present).
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