Compliment Quote by Chapman Cohen

There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke…

— Thomas Szasz

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

— Dion Fortune

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…

— Rose Macaulay

“In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was as American…

— John Corvino

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.”

— Bertrand Russell

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

— John Milton

“Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.”

— Mac Canoza

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Persecution matures young rebels.

— Han Suyin

“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But…

— J. Matthew Nespoli