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title: "4 Oppressed Persecuted Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/the-bosom-of-america-is-open-to-receive-not-only-the-opulent-and/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/the-bosom-of-america-is-open-to-receive-not-only-the-opulent-and-2/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [“I merely question the sanity of those who would criminalize, and, worse, brand as insane, the poor, the wretched, the oppressed, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emilie-autumn/i-merely-question-the-sanity-of-those-who-would-criminalize-and-worse/)

[Emilie Autumn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emilie-autumn/)

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> [Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/tibet-why-is-it-occupied-for-political-reasons-maybe-they-have-a/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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