Quotes About Persecution

or Puritans sailing to America seeking religious freedom.

Jesus would be crucified in any age. In a sense, he is crucified in every age.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

Sada su sve nade raspršene, zato što je glupan žarko želio ?uti loše o sebi, a to neke ljude progoni kao zao duh.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

If there would have been a bomb thrown, I surely would have been blamed for it

To-night I am to be shot because I had once acquired an education.

The field had to be "cleared of disturbing elements," and the Anarchists were the first to suffer. Since then the persecution of the Anarchists has never ceased.

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

Religious minorities (including Jews) will have to wear special insignia in Iraq

The rat population thrived in such a horrible mess. Ironically, cats were believed to be the consorts of witches in those days, so they were killed. Persecution of cats during the Middle Ages nearly eliminated populations of the rat's natural predator, just when Europeans could have used the cats' hunting skills the most.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

M. E. Dodd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, expressed his belief that Hitler's moves against German Jews were unfortunately necessary because they had used their strengths "for self-aggrandizement to the injury of the German people," and he charged that "since the war some 200,000 Jews from Russia and other Eastern places had come to Germany. Most of these were Communist agitators against the government.

When I think of immigration, I want to think of families. I want to think of unity. I want to think of a safe place, you know, free of persecution, a place where we can welcome a child that is hungry.

For centuries, our country has welcomed people fleeing religious persecution, war and humanitarian crises to create a better future for themselves and their futures. With proper safeguards in place, we should offer refuge to some migrants with legitimate fears of persecution and violence.

The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

I preach in countries if I say 'Jesus Christ is the only way, the truth and the life,' they'll arrest me.

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

Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.

The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

Bullies always have another target.