Persecution Quotes · Page 5

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

— George Washington

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

— John Calvin

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

— Ramsay MacMullen

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

— Francis Schaeffer

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

— Harry S. Truman

“Actually, the biggest danger to the Christian church does not come from the persecution without, but from heresy within.”

— David Robertson

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

— Marco Rubio

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

— John Stott

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw…

— Ricky Schroder

I believe God gives us special grace to help us in moments of persecution. But I also believe he often uses his…

— Johnnie Moore, Jr

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then…

— Paul Robeson

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution…

— Strom Thurmond

Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as…

— Marco Rubio

My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association…

— Enes Kanter

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting…

— St. Jerome

“Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man: We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in…

— Hugh Latimer

I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I…

— Roger Ebert

Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers…

— David Brewster

“I am afraid, my friends, that the ugly chapters of genocides and the deep-rooted history of persecution in the Middle East will…

— Widad Akreyi

While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,…

— Wilford Woodruff

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum…

— Eileen Simpson

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning…

— Samuel Johnson

It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far…

— Richard Wurmbrand

As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.…

— Joseph Brodsky

“The deeply rooted Christianity of Africa and Asia did not simply fade away through lack of zeal, or theological confusion: it was…

— Philip Jenkins

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or…

— Virginia Woolf

Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be…

— Saint Basil

Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points…

— Greg Gilbert

“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of…

— John Patrick Shanley

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were…

— Steven Pinker

“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!”

— Anonymous

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

— Susan B. Anthony

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

— Austin O'Malley

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

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

— J. C. Ryle

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Edwin Louis Cole