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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows. – Gabriel Peri

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran

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