Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old persecution quotes, persecution sayings, and persecution proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.Morris Raphael Cohen
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All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.Phyllis Bottome
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Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to be perfectly logical. If you have no doubt of your premises or your power and want a certain result with all your heart you naturally express your wishes in law and sweep away all opposition.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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. Brother Andrew
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.Susan B. Anthony
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Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.Charles Spurgeon
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Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.Hugh Latimer
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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.Howard Mumford Jones
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Persecution often does in this life what the last day will do completely--separate the wheat from the tares.Lord Milner
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Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.Nicholas Murray Butler
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Persecution, whenever it occurs, establishes only the power and cunning of the persecutor, not the truth and worth of his belief.H. M. Kallen
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Persecution, religious pride, the love of contradiction, are the food of what the world commonly calls religion.Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur
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Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.Richard Whately
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.Thomas Paine
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Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.Frances Wright
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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.Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.Edmund Burke
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Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.Harper Lee
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. Frank Moore Colby
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.Chapman Cohen
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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.Emma Goldman
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Persecution is disobeying the most solemn injunction of Christianity, under the sham plea of upholding it.Paul Chatfield
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.Tacitus
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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.Dion Fortune
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.Oliver Goldsmith
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The history of persecution is a history of endeavor to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.Bernard of Clairvaux
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Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.Thomas Browne
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Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.Thomas Paine