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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
Author:
William Yeats
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The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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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.
Author:
Strom Thurmond
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution,' an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
Author:
John Stevens
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In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
Author:
Jack Steinberger
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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.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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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.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.
Author:
Rick Schroder
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I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Author:
Francis Schaeffer
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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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.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
Author:
Robert Rainy
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
Author:
Daniel Palmer
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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.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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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.
Author:
John Mill
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Author:
Imelda Marcos
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When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.
Author:
Hal Lindsey
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Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
Author:
Walter Koenig
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
Author:
Howard Jones
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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.
Author:
Alexander Hamilton
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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.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
Author:
John Foxe
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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.
Author:
George Eliot
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Author:
George Eliot
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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.
Author:
Gregg Easterbrook
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Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
Author:
Gregg Easterbrook
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Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
Author:
Gregg Easterbrook
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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
Author:
Bill Condon
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Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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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.
Author:
Frank Colby
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
Author:
Arthur Bryant
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
Author:
Thomas Babington
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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Author:
Thomas Babington
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Author:
Joseph Addison
