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• Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn’t agree with – the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Agree, Persecution

• The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn’t be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

  John Shelby Spong

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  Tags in Persecution, Separate

• 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 Marcos

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  Tags in Crime, Persecution, Place, Specific

• You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

  George Eliot

  Topics in History

  Tags in Ostracism, Persecution

• Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

  George Eliot

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  Tags in Opposition, Persecution

• 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.

  Sargent Shriver

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  Tags in Persecution

• Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

  Edmund Burke

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  Tags in Religious, Persecution

• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Persecution, Censure, Eminent, Folly, Weakness, Man

• 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.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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  Tags in Persecution, Commit, Hold, Foolish

• Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

  Gautama Buddha

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  Tags in Persecution, Loved, Good, Virtue

• Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tags in Religious, Persecution, Propagation

• Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Tags in Persecution, Sect, Faction, Oppression

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Insight, Persecution, Destruction