Yet as persecution—even worldwide persecution—ensues…

“Islamo-Fascism is NOT the result of economic deprivation or legitimate blowback because of Western foreign policies or even heinous drone attacks on Muslim civilians.…

— Gary F. Patton

“There’s no persecution in the Holy Land … unless you share your faith.”

— Pastor Steven Khoury Israel

It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate…

— Anonymous

“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

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— George Washington

“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.”

— Bertrand Russell

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

— John Milton

“Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.”

— Mac Canoza

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Persecution matures young rebels.

— Han Suyin

“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

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

— J. C. Ryle

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage