My uncle the publisher and the tale of an idealist

Once a upon a time there was a true idealist. The need of justice for the victims of the genocide perpetrated during the last years of the Ottoman Empire was at the center of my uncle's life. Nothing mattered in this world more than the truth to be written and published. He did all he could do, and went into publishing and lived life around it. At the end of his days, he told me what it is still most revealing to me: "live your life fully, don't leave pages unturned." He seemed to had lived for an ideal of justice for the ones gone and perished in the genocide, and with that he could not live his life fully and he found that out at the end of his life...