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

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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

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