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The habit of considering a man's religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.
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The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account,
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
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From the fires of persecution, can come sparks of light.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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Nothing is more irreligious than to persecute the seekers of truth in order to keep up absurdities and superstitions of bygone ages. Nothing is more inhuman than the commission of 'devout cruelty' under the mask of love of God and man.
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Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
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Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.
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Persecution, like fire, burns up the weak elements (wood and hay) but actually purifies the strong ones (silver and gold). It
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What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
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Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.
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without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews
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The most persecuted European national minority in the second half of the 1930s was not the four hundred thousand or so German Jews (the number declining because of emigration) but the six hundred thousand or so Soviet Poles (the number declining because of executions).1
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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.
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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.
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness.
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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
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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.
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Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
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Always help the persecuted.
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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But the reality is that many people are facing nonphysical persecution because of their stand for righteousness.
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The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.
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Great artists, as history reveals, have been harshly persecuted time and again by the frightened and ill-educated,
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There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.
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The early Church was birthed and sustained in almost constant persecution and pressures
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Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
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When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.
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Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.
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Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.
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Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.
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I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.
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The opinions which are still persecuted strike the majority as so monstrous and immoral that the general principle of toleration cannot be held to apply to them. But this is exactly the same view as that which made possible the tortures of the Inquisition.
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We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone]; we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed;
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.
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Don't worry when you're being persecuted for God, worry when you're not.
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Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.
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everyone who wants to live a godly life in King Jesus will be persecuted,
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A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries.
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When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.
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So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
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If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
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Like all persecuted minority groups, they strike back by forming cabals, by "taking over" certain spheres of activity (in the arts, for instance), and by purposely provocative behavior.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
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Always help those who are being persecuted.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
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We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
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The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.
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Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution
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In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.
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Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
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Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
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Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.
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Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
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Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world? ... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.
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And here, she said to herself, is the victim of the witch hunt, or its modern equivalent. Not much has changed. Witchcraft or sexual harassment: the tactics of persecution were much the same - the loathed enemy was identified and then demonised.
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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
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It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
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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.
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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
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Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.
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We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It's easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that ... it is often cited by the oppressors.
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Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.
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transgressions one
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Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.
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And in that hour,
The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
To such gigantic and enormous growth,
Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
Hence date the persecution and the pain
That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
Regardless of their plaints.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
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The vocation of putting people straight, of tearing off their masks, of forcing them to face the repressed truth, is a highly dangerous and destructive calling,
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How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?
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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.
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While Christians in America have worshipped without the fear or threat of physical abuse for their beliefs, thousands of their brothers in Christ throughout the world have been tortured and martyred for confessing the name of Christ.
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Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution
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Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.
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Every time we are hated or persecuted we have to react with God's love
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I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
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The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!
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Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
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people's attempts to mangle religious doctrines to fit their own purposes.
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O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing.
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In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief