Persecution Quotes
278 quotes by 235 authors
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
— Hosea Ballou
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of…
— Joseph Addison
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There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms…
— James Buchan
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
— Edmund Burke
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked…
— Ed Koch
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I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.
— Janet Reno
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was…
— Jacques Charles
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Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he…
— Sam Crawford
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By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose.…
— Spencer Abraham
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Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
— John Calvin
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Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.
— Thomas Browne
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution.…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of…
— Adolf Hitler
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
— Tacitus
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such…
— James Madison
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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