Persecuted Quotes

130 quotes by 115 authors

In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed. — Frederick Lenz
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media… — Ma Jian
I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, itâ€™s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God… — Jon Stewart
I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed… — David Berg
Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far… — Eric Hoffer
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost… — Pascal Boyer
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the… — Saint Basil
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences… — E. M. Forster
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution...… — Felix Frankfurter
I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an… — Craig Ferguson
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at… — Aldous Huxley
Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick,… — Mitt Romney
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center… — Elie Wiesel
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are… — Marquis de Sade
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest… — Susan B. Anthony
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to… — Susanna Clarke
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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