Persecuted Quotes
130 quotes by 115 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
— Thomas Paine
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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