Quotes About Persecution

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.

The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance.

Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

One of the final speeches, and the final word on the right to have arms, was by Zachariah Johnson, who observed that the new Constitution could never result in religious persecution or other oppression. He added: "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.

For those denounced by their smug, horrible children For a peppermint-star and the praise of the Perfect State, For all those strangled, gelded or merely starved To make perfect states; for the priest hanged in his cassock, The Jew with his chest crushed in and his eyes dying, The revolutionist lynched by the private guards To make perfect states, in the names of the perfect states.

Jesus told His disciples, "A man's enemies will be the members of his household." (Matthew 10:36)

At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.

Every few days, Giordano Bruno has his revenge.

Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.

beauty is a world betrayed. The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewere. Beauty hides behind the scenes of the May Day parade. If we want to find it, we must demolish the scenery.

for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless.

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant. Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names.

La bellezza è un mondo tradito. La possiamo incontrare solo quando i persecutori l'hanno dimenticata per errore da qualche parte.

Aujourd'hui l'âme de la foule, qui s'identifiait peut-être jadis aux misérables persécutés, s'identifie à la misère des persécuteurs. Parce que la chasse à l'homme est en notre siècle la chasse aux privilégiés : à ceux qui lisent des livres ou qui ont un chien.

L'anima della folla, che forse un tempo si identificava con i miseri perseguitati, si identifica oggi, con la miseria dei persecutori. Perché nel nostro secolo la caccia all'uomo è caccia ai privilegiati. A quelli che leggono libri o che hanno un cane.

James J. Strang, innocent target of religious persecution—like all his personae, this one proved to be a mask. Yet it was exactly those masks—those endless layers of ambiguity—that gave the man his charisma

Protestants had a special appetite for witch trials; over 90 percent of the trials took place in Protestant lands.