Persecution Quotes

278 Persecution quotes by 233 unique authors

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no… — Robert Green Ingersoll
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet… — Wilford Woodruff
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is not the true… — Oscar Romero
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear… — Oskar Schindler
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they… — Christopher Isherwood
Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world. — J C Ryle
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection… — William Stringfellow
Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for… — Vidkun Quisling
When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well,… — Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the… — Mary Church Terrell
To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution. — Mark Weisbrot
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents… — Hideki Tojo
The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted… — Thomas Eakins
We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution… — Otto Frank
People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place… — Takashi Nagai
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the… — Horace Bushnell
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. — Daniel D. Palmer
Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers. — Dillon Burroughs
Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy. — Harry J. Anslinger
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. — Morris Raphael Cohen
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of… — Thomas Paine
The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified; not… — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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