Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the… — Vidkun Quisling Copy Share Image
When is constancy required, except under persecution. Are not friends then proved? If they always yield, how can they ever succeed? They… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
“The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized… — Lin Zhao Copy Share Image
Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
“It is one of the ironies of history that the persecution and expulsion of the Jews is what made such an efficient… — Daniel Ammann Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“The habit of considering a man’s religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. — Frank Moore Colby 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
President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we… — Denis McDonough Copy Share Image
“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution.… — Mark Collett Copy Share Image
I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment… — William Hague Copy Share Image
“Yea, and so abundant were they in the three first centuries, that ten years constant and almost universal persecution under Dioclesian, could… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion… — Walter Koenig Copy Share Image
The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image