Quotes About Persecution

Un buhonero que cruzaba aquellas tierras errante, fue en Dauria acusado, preso y muerto en garrote infame.

In Soviet eyes the definition of 'fascist' included anyone who did not follow the orders of the Communist Party.

There was not one witness to accuse me, there was no one to identify me, there was not a single piece of evidence against me. I was found guilty, simply out of the mistaken "conviction" held by the Political Police. And sadly, my case was no exception.

We lived a decent and beautiful life," the old man said. "Maybe it's our innocence that irritates those who hate us so much and makes them kill us and burn us and hang us. It was a magnificent life because we lived in peace with ourselves. But we were always in the minority.

A já myslel, že tÄ› jako vále?ného zajatce propustili! PÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tak... Mezinárodní právo nás trochu jako chránilo jako polské zajatce. Ale Ã…â"¢íÅ¡ského Žida mohl zabít na ulici kdekdo!

Mandela had a conviction that only goodness could win in a moral struggle. He believed that even under unjust persecution, people should treat others with kindness and respect, that anything less was a failing of his own character.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

The persecution of Christians isn't isolated. Instead, it's rampant and expanding around the world.

Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581)

No one idea has given rise to more oppression and persecution toward colored people of this country than that which makes Africa, not America, their home.

It is not their love for men, rather it is the impotence of their love that hinders Christians of today from burning us.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see His purpose in it all. Maybe his children are being persecuted by the world in order that they might withdraw themselves from the world. Maybe His most violent enemies may be doing His work negatively, for it could be the mission of totalitarianism to preside over the liquidation of a modern world that became indifferent to God and His moral laws.

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

My heart's desire was freedom... 400 years ago they'd have burned me as a witch or dunked me like a big biscuit.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.