F

Fear

* They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist;
   They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist;
   They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader;
   They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
   Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me.
                                                                             -Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984

* My father said the postmistress told him I should be kicked naked through the town. I was shaken. It made me more fearful, more of an exile, not just from Ireland, but from human beings.
                                                                             -Edna O'Brien, recalling the vicious treatment she
      received when she published "The Country Girls," banned for its sexual candor, in 1960.