We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing…

We must remember that this nation was founded by people fleeing religious persecution, risking everything to find a place to be free to worship…

— Tulsi Gabbard

“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that…

— Mitch Horowitz

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns…

— ben franklin

Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain…

— Oliver Ellsworth

President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as…

— Denis McDonough

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every chain upon…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would…

— William Winwood Reade

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

“Our nation was settled and populated by Christians who could not abide persecution. Shipload after shipload of our Christian ancestors, for decade after decade,…

— John Price

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

— Dion Fortune

“In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was as American…

— John Corvino

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer