There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate s

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse

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

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

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

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

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