“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Actually, the biggest danger to the Christian church does not come from the persecution without, but from heresy within.” — David Robertson Copy Share Image
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions. — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions:… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Yet as persecution—even worldwide persecution—ensues against the Church there will be unity that will come, which will only be explainable as a… — Principles Book Copy Share Image
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda 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
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
You mark my words, and it won’t be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from… — Paul Washer 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
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or… — Lynette Sowell Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The… — Bruce Feiler 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
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
“However, before long, you find it has always happened that the low tide returns. The ocean of grace seemed to recede; the… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The myth of Christian martyrdom and persecution needs to be corrected, because it has left us with a dangerous legacy that poisons… — Candida Moss Copy Share Image
I say unto you with all the soberness I can, that we stand in danger of losing our liberties, and that once… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
How you look at life depends on which side of the prism you are looking at. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Banker-bashing: Should it not fall into the same category as bullying, persecution, racism and sexism?” — Przemek Skwirczynski Copy Share Image
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Persecution is one way to drive believers away and create a carnal comfort zone. — John Hagee Copy Share Image
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The persecution of Christians isn't isolated. Instead, it's rampant and expanding around the world. — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty. — James Monroe Copy Share Image