What matters most now, I hope, is that you survived the experience, and are able to draw on that to write as powerfully and insightfully as you do, both about your own life, and the ways in which those same circumstances and attitudes continue to threaten our society.

Those are the blows you can strike, which will ultimately have a greater and wider impact.

Although giving the bastards a good kicking would not go amiss either.

Sometimes there really is only one language they understand.