Quotes About Persecution

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

El plan de salvación no ofrece a los creyentes una vida libre de sufrimientos y pruebas antes de llegar al Reino; por el contrario, les pide que sigan a Cristo en la misma senda de abnegación y vituperio. [...] Por medio de estas pruebas y persecuciones, el carácter de Cristo se reproduce y se revela en su pueblo. [...] Nuestra participación en los sufrimientos de Cristo nos educa y disciplina, y nos prepara para compartir la gloria del mundo venidero" (CBA 6:565).

Happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

All the ghettoes were being wiped out. The Germans were killing all the Jews." "But why? Why?" Helena asked. "They don't need reasons," I said. "Any excuse works for them, because they have the guns and we don't.

They have fooled the world. Or else the world doesn't give a damn. What confounds me is that no one seems to ask what right they have to put us in prisons at all. The assumption seems to be that it's all right for Jews to be jailed and treated like dogs, provided they aren't murdered.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men. —Heinrich Heine

When I told her we were going to roast her, she said, "Of course, . . . they only crucify the innocent."

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

they tremble and hide under the table when a local branch of ADL calls them 'anti-Semites'. Like the label of 'witch' in Salem, this word triggers a spasm wave in the target population.

The Church squashed in blood Albigensian and Arian heresies, destroyed Druids and other non-Christian cults in Europe, baptized Slavs and Balts by fire and sword; do you think it wouldn't have been able to eliminate the Jews if it had wished to? The concept of 'racial segregation' was totally foreign to Christianity

Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

I remember feeling like we at WBC were a persecuted minority, triumphant in the face of evil people 'worshipping the dead' as we picketed funerals or rejoiced at the destruction of the Twin Towers.

It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.

Limiting the ability of the people to peacefully organize and partake in direct action to fight against persecution and discrimination is not only barred by the U.S. Constitution but is fundamentally un-American.

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes - allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

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.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.