Persecution Quotes

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.

Persecution matures young rebels.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty.

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as refugees.

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

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.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

We can take persecution because we know the purpose behind it. The purpose is to glorify God.

Persecution may wear an insulting face. Insults may come as a result of a Christian’s lifestyle, which should be different from that of the secular world.

The Bible clearly says that faithfulness and persecution often go hand in hand.

We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world.

Make use of every friend— and every foe.

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.