“In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized… — Lin Zhao Copy Share Image
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths in the Christian cause. The only possible explanation for their zeal was that… — Fritz Ridenour Copy Share Image
“After enduring humankind's unrelenting persecution, the wolf had become something nature had never intended, "the curse of a generation of ranchers and… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that… — Michael Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
There was a lynching case as late as 2011, so it's not as far away as we think. I think persecution by… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Does anyone know... does the Christian persecution complex have an expiration date? Because... uh... you've all been in charge pretty much since...… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse this will assist in realization of our plans I have an excellent… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
“The just and the worthy have to suffer in order to spread their ideas and let them be known. One has to… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of… — Juan Pablo Di Pace Copy Share Image
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The historical relationship between Christians and Jews for most of the two thousand years of Christianity has not been good and it's… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
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