“ Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
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“ Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for pre-eminence. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 138
“ A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
- 279
“ Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
- 298
“ The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 544
“ The persecution of Jews, just like Nazism, is a Western phenomenon. In the east, we have always lived side by side with them. And we follow a religion that states that the death of an innocent person is the death of all of humanity. ”
- Mohammad Khatami- Copy
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“ He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. ”
- James A. Baldwin- Copy
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“ I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. ”
- Francis Schaeffer- Copy
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“ Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him. ”
- St. Teresa of Avila- Copy
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“ Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. ”
- Charles Krauthammer- Copy
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“ Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. ”
- Charles Simmons- Copy
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“ Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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