Marie Colvin - Badass For Truth

'Commander,' she said, 'this is a very important story to get out. The world really needs to know what's happening here in Syria. We can't just sit by and watch murder take place. The world desperately needs to see what's happening inside Baba Amr. Please, if you don't take us in, then this carnage will slip past into history. Assad can crush you right now. You need people to see this. People will listen to me and they will see Paul's pictures. We can help: we can show the world; we can bear witness.'

From Under the Wire: Marie Colvin's Last Assignment by Paul Conroy (The "Paul" referenced in the quote.)

This was Marie making her argument to a rebel commander to be smuggled into Baba Amr, near Homs, in February 2012. She & Paul Conroy got in. Ten days later, after retreating from the town and returning yet again, she was killed with French photographer Remi Ochlik while under intense shelling from the Syrian Army. The official government death certificate claimed she was killed by an IED placed by the Syrian rebels. Conroy was there and grievously injured in the same attack. His book is about what really happened.