Crush Quote by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am…

— Pope Francis

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by…

— Gavin Newsom

“The language of martyrdom and persecution is often the language of war. It forces a rupture between “us” and “them” and perpetuates and legitimizes…

— James Martin

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

— Roy Bennett

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as…

— Elie Wiesel

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

Some evils are cured by contempt.

— George Herbert

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all,…

— Horace Bushnell

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

— Hesiod

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

— Eric Hoffer

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.

— Rick Scarborough