Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. — William Butler Yeats 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
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony 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
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
We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty. — Oliver Ellsworth 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
“In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
“The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
American Christians are quite able to organize around issues that concern them. Yet religious persecution appears not to have grabbed their attention,… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“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
As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all… — Gad Saad 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
“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
“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
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
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman 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
Our two nations have a lot in common, when you think about it. We were both founded by immigrants escaping religious persecution… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Boom!” The thunder of a massive explosion rolled across the settlement. Maria’s sobbing came from the bedroom. Irina ran to her daughter.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In this short philosophical novel he completely undermined the kind of optimism about humanity and the universe that Pope and Leibniz had… — Nigel Warburton 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
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of… — George Washington 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
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
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