Martyrdom

"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.

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Nothing, indeed, can be more deserving of our admiration than the conduct of the Christian martyrs, who cheerfully submitted to an ignominious death, inflicted by the most atrocious torments, rather than deny their faith even by the mere performance of an apparently insignificant rite of Paganism.

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The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.

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

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Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

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I do not think life will change for the better without an assault on the establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of “Orthodoxy, True and False” and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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The Sheikh has departed, may God have mercy on him, to his God as a martyr and we must continue on his path of jihad to expell the invaders from the land of Muslims and to purify it from injustice. Today, and thanks to God, America is not facing an individual or a group, but a rebelling nation, which has awoken from its sleep in a jihadist renaissance.

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For a tear is an intellectual thing;Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.

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The noble army of martyrs.

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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

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He strove among God's suffering poor Then shut,—and here behold the end!

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Martyrs! who left for our reaping Chasten'd from evil to good.

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It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.

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His wife and children, being eleven in number, ten able to walk, and one sucking on her breast, met him by the way as he went towards Smithfield: this sorrowful sight of his own flesh and blood, dear as they were to him, could yet nothing move him, but that he constantly and cheerfully took his death with wonderful patience, in the defence and support of Christ's Gospel.

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Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.

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