The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
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Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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