" First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into something else. Then, they appease it in hope that it will not turn against them. Then, they respect it because they fear it. Finally, someone has to step up and stamp it out! (...) "

― Walter Dean Myers , The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 (My Name Is America)