Quotes About Persecution

After Schächter's final performance, Eichmann is reported to have said: Those crazy Jews, singing their own requiem.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

If even under growing persecution the author of Hebrews insisted that Christians "not give up meeting together" (v. 25a), how much greater disgrace it is when believers in less dangerous settings think they can go it alone in the Christian life or treat regular gatherings with fellow believers casually as an option only if nothing else intrudes on their schedules. 76

So Germany in the 1920s was not a good place or time to be an internationalist, pacifist, intellectual Jew.

my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

He thinks he can't participate in this race dialogue, because Asians haven't been persecuted as much as Black people.

Bu stresin alt?nda ezilenler için ak?l rahats?zl???na s???nmaktan ba?ka çare gözükmüyordu ki, zaman?n ?artlar? ile bu fanatik dincili?e döndü. Kara Ölüm'ün ilk günlerinde toplu sapk?nl?k, kendini ?ehir ?ehir dola?an binlerce k?rbaçç? tarikatlarda gösterdi. Sonra salg?n?n yay?lmas?ndan Yahudiler sorumlu tutuldu.

Hristiyanl???n erken döneminde (MS ilk 3 yy), her musibet -k?tl?k, deprem, salg?n- toplu ?ekilde Hristiyanl??a geçi?e sebep olmu?tur. Hristiyanl?k, h?yarc?kl? vebaya ve çiçek hastal???na çok ?ey borçludur.

Those are Christians that are being slaughtered, and nobody in the Christian world lifts a finger or even protests, not the Pope, not your World Council of Churches, not the Christian countries. Only the damn Jews. It's downright embarrassing. No wonder that no one supports them in the UN. That's the point I was making. They make everybody uncomfortable, so everybody votes against them.

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

The children of the prophets of the Lord, Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate. Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state, The West refused them, and the East abhorred. No anchorage the known world could afford.

Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.

Communist," he repeated. "You may have heard someone in a concentration admit to being a murderer and many agreed that they had been spies. A prisoner would sometimes even confess to having at one time - for a short while - been a Jew. But a communist, no. No one would ever let that word pass their lips.

In the Middle Ages, church and secular powers often forbade Jews to trim their beards in any way. Why? To be certain that a Jew could be identified.

There had been incidents meant to remind them that they were being watched. Yet there had also been more arrests and darker threats and cruel floggings. The religious authorities had no intention of letting the group continue unchallenged. When any possible reason for an offense could be generated, they took full advantage.

I could be rearrested at any time; there could be attempts of my life. I have no idea. You are dealing with totally unpredictable people and a nation where the rule of law means nothing.

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.