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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce.
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.
Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.
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.
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.
It was rare to see an Asian man and white woman together when my parents fell in love. They went through years of persecution and harassment.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Our country is a nation of immigrants, who, for centuries, have come here, fleeing persecution, bringing their dreams, their fears, and their hopes for a better life.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
The United States was built on the idea that we could create a free country that would serve as a haven for those fleeing persecution.
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.
Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.
The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
While migration is inevitable, the fact remains that most people leave their homes to escape violence and the certain persecution that comes from it.
This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
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.
Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.
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.
Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.
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.
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association with me.
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
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.
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
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.
One must not confuse the fight against corruption with the persecution of the rich or wealthy families.
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
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.
Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.
Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.