Persecute Quotes

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The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on… — Julius Streicher
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. — Alva Myrdal
It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved… — Anne Rice
The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them. — Irving Kristol
You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American. — Eric Liu
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. — Max Beckmann
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and… — David Brewster
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power. — Joseph McCabe
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,… — Eric Hoffer
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation… — Charles Caleb Colton
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. — Antonia Fraser
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not… — Wangari Maathai
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction… — Gertrude Stein
I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and… — Jan Karon
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers… — Doris Lessing
You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is… — Lenny Bruce
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me,… — Umberto Eco
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for… — Rob Bell
I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I… — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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