Quotes About Persecution

If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.

When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next.

Uninvited, they had come from Nazi Germany as observers. When they returned to Berlin, they informed Hitler that he could do whatever he wished with the Jews. No nation would stop him.

What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.

Marcus will probably never be hugely popular with committed Christians, if only because he persecuted them. But for others he holds out the prospect of spirituality for atheists, happiness without God, joy without heaven and morality without religion.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!

Nazi street gangs launched increasingly violent attacks against Hitler's enemies, especially leftists and Jews. As one historian put it, "To ready the ground for the Nazi rise to ultimate power, the party raised the level of violence witnessed by ordinary Germans with each passing month.

Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us

A person can carry his own persecutor, his own prison, about with him, Monseigneur. He can - as you know - die of thirst even when he has the clearest water within his reach. To be free...not to be free...it is all relative. No one has to drag along more ballast than he wants to and he who allows himself to be bound is a fool. The biggest fools are those who wear shackles of cobwebs and believe themselves to be helpless.

Even so. The papers will be screaming about the fact that the murderer was a cop. There will be new persecution of the force.

Ask God to make you like Christ so that, even when you are being persecuted, you can pray, "Father, forgive them.

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.'