Persecution Quotes

The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.

I must profess while heaven and earth last, that no one tenant that either London, England, or the world doth harbor is so heretical, blasphemous, seditious, and dangerous to the corporal, to the spiritual, to the present, to the eternal good of all men as the bloody tenant… of persecution for cause of conscience.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

You will be hated by all men on account of my name; but the man who stands firm to the end will be saved. If they persecute you in one town, take refuge in the next; and if they persecute you in that, take refuge in another. (Matthew 10:22-23)

Checks and Ballances, Jefferson, however you and your Party may have derided them, are our only Security, for the progress of Mind, as well as the Security of Body. Every Species of these Christians would persecute Deists, as soon as either Sect would persecute another, if it had unchecked and unballanced Power. Nay, the Deists […]

To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well.

Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein, or his sons, or any of the killers who occupy the high levels of their government, my advice is, don’t follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a […]