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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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

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

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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