Counting Quote by Pope Francis

“Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.”

— Andrew Dalby

Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is…

— Perry Bellegarde

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

— George Washington

If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would…

— William Winwood Reade

My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious…

— Jan Schakowsky

We must remember that this nation was founded by people fleeing religious persecution, risking everything to find a place to be free to worship…

— Tulsi Gabbard

In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this bleakly beautiful…

— Shana Alexander

“Remember how those who bent on denying the truth plotted against you to imprison you or kill you or expel you: they schemed—but God…

— Anonymous

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

“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

“Notwithstanding the fact that infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Our nation was settled and populated by Christians who could not abide persecution. Shipload after shipload of our Christian ancestors, for decade after decade,…

— John Price