“I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.”
Source: Real World
As quoted in "Standoff in Iran Deepens With New Show of Force" by Michael Slackman in The New York Times (1 January 2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/world/middleeast/02iran.html?ref=world
Context: I’m not afraid of being one of the post-election martyrs who lost their lives in their struggle for their rightful demands. My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.
“I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.”
Source: Real World
“I may have lost the election but I have not lost my reason to live.”
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998, as quoted by http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-05-24/tech/30081331_1_singaporean-lee-kuan-yew-political-landscape
1990s
“The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.”
Cities of the Plain (1998)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IX : Faith, Hope, and Charity
Source: A tweet https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1011991303599607808 from June 2018
Source: Quoted in Get in good trouble, necessary trouble': Rep. John R. Lewis in his own words https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/18/rep-john-lewis-most-memorable-quotes-get-good-trouble/5464148002/ Joshua Bote, USA Today (18 July 2020)