Incidents Quote by Chester Himes

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be…

— Alexandre Dumas

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…

— Billie Jean King

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the…

— Malcolm X

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

— Robert Kennedy

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have…

— Robert Kennedy

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Martyrdom of followers is a strategy of political leaders to grab money and power.

— Sreenivasan