Persecution Quotes
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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
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph Addison
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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it
Howard Mumford Jones
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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
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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
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Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
Bertrand Russell
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We hope our Prime Minister can openly and publicly speak to the President of China to urge him to stop the persecution,
Andy Gomarsall
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Today we ask, `How can a country with such a horrific record of human rights abuses, religious persecution, nuclear proliferation and espionage be deemed normal by any freedom-loving country such as the United States?`
Armando Vargas
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To show a "well-founded fear of persecution," an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
Allan Asher
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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.
Andrew Bosomworth
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There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn`t let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I`d changed.
Rick Schroder
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The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
Andrei Lankov
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Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
Gregg Easterbrook
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
Andrew Bosomworth
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Knowledge of God`s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Alberto Bernal
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Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that`s why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
Gregg Easterbrook
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I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.
Gregg Easterbrook
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I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Francis Schaeffer
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos
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And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
Paul Robeson
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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Amy Wroblewski
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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 ob...
Adam Deadmarsh
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Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
Adam Clymer
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