“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“Our nation was settled and populated by Christians who could not abide persecution. Shipload after shipload of our Christian ancestors, for decade… — John Price Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the fact that infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
“Remember how those who bent on denying the truth plotted against you to imprison you or kill you or expel you: they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
We must remember that this nation was founded by people fleeing religious persecution, risking everything to find a place to be free… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“So, when a young German cleric, who had fled religious persecution in the Fatherland to seek asylum in the New World, wished… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“To understand the grimoires within their own context, we must not look at them through the eyes of twenty-first century readers with… — Aaron Leitch 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
Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in… — ben franklin Copy Share Image
“The chief care of the legislators [in the colonies of New England] was the maintenance of orderly conduct and good morals in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“the suspicion of science is not based in actual Christian belief. My congregation full of educators and scientists disproves that. But the… — Emily C. Heath Copy Share Image
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I've seen temples feed on fear, graves labeled as pride - I've seen nations crowned with glory, yet cruelty inside. But I've… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
