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The film also exaggerates Flynt's martyrdom for the cause of free speech.
Moreover, peer pressure certainly appears to have been a factor in swaying recruits to choose "martyrdom."
' St. Agnes suffered martyrdom at this stadium after her hair grew with miraculous rapidity to cover the nakedness by which her persecutors sought to humiliate her.
Yeats ("the greatest poet of the twentieth century"), urging the House managers to "be secret and exult" in their martyrdom.
He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since "the walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets."