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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.