Quotes About Persecution

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews.

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

Being a Muslim is not a joke but a challenge. If you think it is, come and live in Pakistan where you will know about Muslims' enemies around the globe

How his family was killed. Fakhri and his thugs raiding villages, burning, raping. Sunnis, Shi'a, Alawites, Christians, everybody killing everybody else. People say the Mafia's bad. Mafia's nothing next to those fucking religions.

Der er en fordel ved at være en minoritet, som regnes blandt de forfulgte: for i den stilling må du stole på Gud som din kilde. Som Havner engang sarkastisk bemærkede, er det først, når kristendommen bevæger sig fra forfølgelse til popularitet, at kraften forsvinder.

blessed are you when men persecute you and say bad things against you?