Quotes About Persecution

Starhawk develops this idea further in her beautiful essay "The Burning Times" in which she argues that "the persecution of Witches undermined the unity of the peasant community.

Marguerite Porete

But a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of expressing them, appears to be regarded by everyone in authority as much worse than the worst criminal, and all the 'jacks-in-office' unite to kick him to death if they can.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.

For opposing this and similar moves, dedicated Catholics like Bishop John Fisher and Sir Thomas More would go to the block. For urging Henry on toward a more complete Reformation, dedicated Protestants like Robert Barnes and John Frith would join them.

This same activity is evident in Daniel 10, where demonic spirits are called the "prince of the kingdom of Persia" and the "prince of Greece." These are demons whose function is to influence the leaders of these nations to do their bidding, especially the persecution of the Jewish people, who were ruled by the Persians

Hasan Pasha also gave the green light for Turks and Greeks to take whatever action they pleased against any Albanians they found: killing them was not a crime. Continuing his march, he executed all the Albanians he encountered, setting fire to a monastery where other were hiding and offering five sequins for every Albanian head brought him.

the Nazis extorted the Jews still remaining in Rome's ghetto, demanding a payment of fifty kilos of gold in thirty-six hours in return for their safety.

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world?

They found the Jews, bound their wrists and ankles, and threw them into Lake Maggiore, where they were machine-gunned to death.

Standartenführer Walter Rauff,

It's where they take every Jew they catch in Milan. Platform Twenty-One in the central station. They put them into cattle cars, and they disappear, bound for . . . no one knows. They don't come back.

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world? How did we end up in an asylum?

Platform 21 was where Jews disappeared on trains heading north.

Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.