Persecuted Quotes

130 quotes by 115 authors

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so… — Russell Brand
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom,… — William J. Clinton
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions;… — George Washington
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation… — George Washington
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. — Thomas Paine
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He delivered me from the poverty-stricken… — Daniel Zion
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and… — Elie Wiesel
That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can… — Phyllis Bottome
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler… — Aime Cesaire
Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. — William Lloyd Garrison
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,… — Thomas Paine
Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of… — Jimmy Carter
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if… — Thomas Jefferson
When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I… — Martin Luther
The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who… — Pope Benedict XVI
Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation. — Lev Gumilev
We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons… — Justin Martyr
If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous… — Deborah Lipstadt

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