http://www.etherzone.com/2005/stang061705.shtml
It was Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer, who made the "gulag archipelago" part of our language. He won the Nobel Prize for the book of that name, lived here in exile and was mentioned in the media almost every day

apathy is our number one enemy, i think you're absolutely correct. it reminds me of this quote from the gulag archipelago...

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . ."