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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
