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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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

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

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

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann

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