The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. – George Eliot

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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

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