Matyrdom Quotes

“Sir, let me explain how I see this issue. Your supreme weapon is killiing. My supreme weapon is dying. Here is how it works. You know that my sermons on tape have spread all over the country. If you kill me, those sermons will be sprinkled with my blood. Everyone will know I died for my preaching. And everyone who has a tape will pick it up and say, ‘I’d better listen again to what this man preached, because he really meant it: he sealed it with his life.’ So, sir, my sermons will speak 10 times louder than before. I will actually rejoice in this supreme victory if you kill me”
― Joseph Tson

“Do you think I would forsake you now?" Willard answered. "If you are condemned to be hung for treason, I will be hung in your stead and you shall go free."
"You cannot," said Joseph.
"I will," said Willard”
― The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Standard of Truth

“Whatever we had at the moment it was due to the heroism of the peshmerga and all our members’ blood and martyrdom.”
― Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement: Fourth Edition, 1975-1990 - The Gulan Revolution, Part Two