Martyr Quotes

• We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

  Cesar Chavez

  Giving, Precious Gifts, Know How

  Cesar Chavez's speech at the Indestructible Spirit Conference at La Paz, UFW Headquarters in Keene, California, January 11, 1991.

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• Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

  O. Henry

  Perfect, Life Happiness

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.516, ShandonPress

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• Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Religious, Pain, Grief

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.164, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Bears, Valuable, Witness

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• Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

  Indira Gandhi

  Reality, Doe, Ends

  Indira Gandhi, Dhiren Mullick (1972). “Indira Speaks on Genocide War and Bangladesh”, Calcutta : Academic Publishers

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Tyrants, Political

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.370, Penguin UK

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• History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Telling The Truth, Changed

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Political, Causes, Christianity

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• Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Blood, Ideas

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

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• A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Disciple

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Faith, Martyred

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• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Causes

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• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

  John of Damascus

  Life, God, Faith

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• Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

  Chester Himes

  Progress, Revolution, Incidents

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• The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

  Tertullian

  Blood, Church Today, Christianity

  Speech at Christmas Celebration for Members of Inter-religious Organization by Reverend William Goh, www.catholic.sg. December 29, 2016.

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• Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hero, Littles, Admiration

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

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• The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Hatred, Crowns

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2017

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• These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

  Schuyler Colfax

  Memorial Day, Ideas, Remembrance

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• The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.

  Alistair Begg

  Differences, Issues, Way

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• Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Sacrifice, Self, And Love

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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

  Albert Camus

  Forgotten, Used, Understood

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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