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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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

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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