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.
- Imelda MarcosI marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 - long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else`s pride, they called me a racist. I`ve worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite. Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this cultural persecution, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh. (1999)
- Charlton HestonThere 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.
- Rick SchroderAnd 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.
- Paul Robeson(on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)) You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of religious and political persecution. It is not in any way exaggerated. If anything, the horrors perpetrated in Loudun in the 17th century were worse than Russell has chosen to show . . . the character of the priest was a marvelous one to act. Ken Russell`s brother-in-law is an historian and he helped me research Grandier`s life, with particular reference to his thesis in celibacy. The people of Loudun loved him. He walked among the plague victims and comforted them. I started to play him as a priest and realized that he was a politician.
- Oliver ReedI think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.
- Gregg EasterbrookStereotypes 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.
- Gregg EasterbrookJewish 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.
- Gregg EasterbrookI believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
- Francis SchaefferIndeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
- Adam ClymerIt is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
- Adam DeadmarshKnowledge of God`s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
- Alberto BernalTo 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.
- Allan AsherAll 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.
- Amy WroblewskiThe white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
- Andrei LankovPersecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
- Andrew BosomworthTo 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.
- Andrew BosomworthWe hope our Prime Minister can openly and publicly speak to the President of China to urge him to stop the persecution,
- Andy GomarsallToday we ask, `How can a country with such a horrific record of human rights abuses, religious persecution, nuclear proliferation and espionage be deemed normal by any freedom-loving country such as the United States?`
- Armando VargasThe most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
- Bertrand RussellGovernment "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.
- Ayn RandBigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue
- Charles SimmonsPersecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
- Frank Moore ColbyPersecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it
- Howard Mumford JonesIt 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.
- Joseph AddisonPersecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law
- Thomas Paine