Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. — Hugh Latimer Copy Share Image
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!” — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves… — Colin Egglesfield Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama thinks that Muslims are the ones being persecuted, and he has to change that. The fact is he… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“2 Corinthians, 4:9, it says ‘Persecuted, but not forsaken: cast down, but not destroyed:’ You see God kept me standing for a reason.” — Michele L. Waters Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is constructed in the DNA of the persecuted. One Egyptian pastor this spring delivered a sermon titled, "A Message to Those… — Johnnie Moore, Jr Copy Share Image
Why was Joseph Smith persecuted? Why was he hunted from neighborhood to neighborhood, from city to city, and from State to State,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you… Remember the word that I said to… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I made it clear that I will consider - this is the important phrase I am trying to say - myself most… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Mean girls come in all shapes and sizes. Some are blond cheerleaders, and some are Francophile brunettes who love Tim Burton and… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then. — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful. — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
