“Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there's concern… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of… — Jean-Marie Le Pen 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
A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“The trouble, in fact, is a difficult one to deal with, since it is inflamed alike by sympathy and by lack of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...)… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the… — H. N. Ellessy Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise… During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In 1986, Pakistan got the blasphemy law. So, while we had just two cases of blasphemy before that year, now we have… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself.… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
“I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to… — John David Geib Copy Share Image
Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The differences between religions are only differences involving the pathways that lead toward the practice of directly experiencing higher levels of perception… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“You don't like the Goths?" "No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!" "Persecution?" "Religious persecution. We won't stand… — L. Sprague De Camp Copy Share Image
How you look at life depends on which side of the prism you are looking at. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
