Religious Persecution Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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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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Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new world.' But even…
— Greg Proops
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Our two nations have a lot in common, when you think about it. We were both founded by immigrants escaping religious persecution in other lands.…
— George W. Bush
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The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.
— Dion Fortune
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Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government…
— Richard Mentor Johnson
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President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans.…
— Denis McDonough
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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the…
— Hugh Hefner
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I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and…
— George Washington
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
— William Butler Yeats
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The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step…
— Susan B. Anthony
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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Who Wrote These Religious Persecution Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Religious Persecution Quotes as follows: