Persecution Quotes

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

~ George Orwell

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.

~ George Washington

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.

~ Brother Andrew

If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of growth, particularly the first-century growth, took place in adversarial cultures. We are not hindered by external forces; we are hindered by our own lack of commitment and selflessness.

~ Thom S. Rainer

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

~ Antonia Fraser

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.

~ Chaim Potok

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted “for My sake.

~ Oswald Chambers

If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.

~ David Mcgee

Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Make use of every friend— and every foe.

~ Alexander Pope

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.

~ William Shakespeare

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

~ George Whitefield

In the 300 years of the crucifixion of Christ to the conversion of Emperor Constantine, polytheistic Roman emperors initiated no more than four general persecutions of Christians. Local administrators and governors incited some anti-Christian violence of their own. Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians. In contrast, over the course, of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions, to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place formerly occupied by religion, there is a growing tendency to persecution, which is not by any means confined to one party.

~ Bertrand Russell

With every blessing comes temptation, tests and persecution

~ Sunday Adelaja

Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.

~ Christina Engela

The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it. The wails of anguish that went up from Kishinev, Odessa, and Bialystok still vibrate in our ears.

~ John E. Remsburg

Thing about witches, we're a paranoid lot. Call it a side effect of living in a world obsessed with seeing you burn.

~ Laura Oliva

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

~ E.m. Forster

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

~ Anthony Burgess

There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and oppression of others to the extent of, and worse than that they had endured. This will weigh heavily on the souls of future generations.

~ H. N. Ellessy

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

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.

~ John Stuart Mill