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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. – Indira Gandhi

I am as content to die for Gods eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. – John Mason Brown

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