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As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. -- Antonia Fraser
It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. -- Paul Wolfowitz
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power. -- Joseph McCabe
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. -- Max Beckmann
You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American. -- Eric Liu
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. -- Alva Myrdal
The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard. -- Julius Streicher
I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that. -- Michael Moore
Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. -- Gertrude Stein
Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows. -- Adam Rayner
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. -- Jesus Christ
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. -- Wangari Maathai
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. -- Nathanael Howe
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too -- Sigmund Freud
Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute. -- Jonathan Kellerman
It's such a terrifying thing when mobs of people get together and persecute foreigners. -- Michael Fassbender
Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status. -- Octavia Butler
If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too. -- Hugh Hefner
If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience. -- Hans Denck
You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education. -- Mikhail Kalinin
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. -- Voltaire
The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them. -- Irving Kristol
It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you. -- Pope Francis
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems." -- Alva Myrdal
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy. -- Cyprian
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity. -- Charles Caleb Colton
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
There is no Muslim version of 'love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you' or 'if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also'. -- Robert Spencer
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike. -- Voltaire
There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other. -- African Spir
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5) -- Rob Bell
I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again. -- Jan Karon
Start focusing your attention on the people that God puts you with, even if they hate you, even if they persecute you and speak bad things about you. Work with them and pray for them! -- Pastor Adelaja Sunday
However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
So why don't they face usexamine our evidence, debate, talkact like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and vilify us? -- Randolph D. Calverhall

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