Quotes of: Persecuted Keyword

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

Paul Robeson

Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution

Jeremy Aldana

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

Elliott Abrams

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Howard Mumford Jones

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Alexander Hamilton

When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican nominee hopeful answered, "One of the reasons I am running is there has been an increasingly aggressive war aga...

The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Maurice

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Paul Wolfowitz

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

Sherman A. Jackson

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

Thomas Frank

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

Frank R. Wolf

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Colin Egglesfield

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Edmund Burke

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

John Foxe

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

John F. Kennedy

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Strom Thurmond

You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.

Elliott Abrams

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

Gregg Easterbrook

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

John Mayer