“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution.… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“It was Pope Innocent III who placed in the hands of the church this terrible weapon of persecution, and who, by the… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the… — Vidkun Quisling Copy Share Image
When is constancy required, except under persecution. Are not friends then proved? If they always yield, how can they ever succeed? They… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“For us, persecution is like the sun coming up in the east. It happens all the time. It's the way things are.… — Nik Ripkin Copy Share Image
“Of course, I could holler Religious Persecution. Not that it would do any good. But it's something I happen to know quite… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because… — Edward Reynolds Copy Share Image
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or… — Lynette Sowell Copy Share Image
When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
You mark my words, and it won’t be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
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