martyr

In death, Babbitt has become a martyr to many on the far right.

Since the fatal shooting, Lemp has become a martyr among anti-government extremists around the country.

Those were individuals who were just trying to live, not trying to be martyrs or tokens for political platforms or politicians.

The gains of the civil rights era, earned through mass protest and the blood of martyrs, again prompted a conservative backlash.

Another thing I think is really important is that right now we expect people to be sort of martyrs if they enter into government service and then they turn around and become lobbyists to make a lot of money.

Conservative Muslim women in Turkey hailed Esme as a martyr and a symbol of female strength and resistance.

Protestors chanted “with our blood and our souls, we will avenge you, oh martyr.”

He informed her that Hamzat had “become a shahid,” a martyr, and he was dead.

“Haters gonna hate” makes the person who says it into an automatic martyr, persecuted, misunderstood, maligned.

With that, writes historian Edward Larson, “The fundamentalist movement acquired a martyr.”

Joan Boughton, a widow, was burned for heresy; said to be the first female martyr of England.

It would not take two minutes to convert him from the inquisitor to the martyr at the stake.

Mrs. Stone's children were notoriously healthy, but she was of the stuff of which the modern martyr is made.

To his bourgeois mind, for all his imitation of the Chicago martyr, my words must have sounded knavish.

The martyr thanked him for his kindness, and promised to pray for him when she came into God's presence.