The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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.
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.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.