#marty

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. ↗

— Albert Camus

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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#children #clothes #dead #despair #desperate

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#every #every man #him #knock #man

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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