Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Actually, the biggest danger to the Christian church does not come from the persecution without, but from heresy within.” — David Robertson Copy Share Image
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems. — John Stott Copy Share Image
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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
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
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in… — ben franklin Copy Share Image
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary.… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“ROM8.35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image