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• I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

  Radclyffe Hall

  People, Misunderstood, Fiction

  "A literature of our own" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2008.

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• God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

  Fred Phelps

  America, Evil, Church

  "Virginia Tech Massacre: God's Wrath". WBC Video News, April 23, 2007.

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• In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Mankind, Term

  "Silvio Berlusconi: I am inferior to no one in history" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2009.

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• For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  War, Talking, Organization

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• Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.

  Robert L. Park

  Enough, Establishment, Alas

  "Cancer doctor under fire for providing false hope to patients". www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2013.

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• The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared, and detested. I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or a member of any 'inferior' group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same.

  John Howard Griffin

  Real, Men, Numbers

  "Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition".

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• The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to be persecuted than to persecute." ... "Be not prone to anger." ... "He who giveth alms in secret is greater than Moses himself." ... "It is better to utter a short prayer with devotion than a long one without fervor." ... "He who having but one piece of bread in his basket, and says, What shall I eat tomorrow? is a man of little faith."

  Frederic Farrar

  Life, Prayer, Philosophy

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• He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Anticipation, Century

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.331, Delphi Classics

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• Masters are those who have chosen only love. In every instance. In every moment. In every circumstance. Even as they were being killed, they loved their murderers. Even as they were being persecuted, they loved their oppressors.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Inspirational, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.51, Penguin

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• Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Evil, Suffering

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• It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Ocean, Men

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

  Hugh Latimer

  Lying, Sides, Persecution

  "The sermons of Right Reverend Father in God".

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• Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude.

  Jerry Bridges

  Country, Brother, Kings

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.81, NavPress

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• In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

  John Dewey

  Kings, Office, Letters

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• If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, America

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• We may continue to expect the enjoyment of all the blessings of civil and religious liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution. The citizens of Illinois have done themselves honor, in throwing the mantle of the Constitution over a persecuted and afflicted people.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Freedom, Blessing

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• For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Issues, Long

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Jesus Christ who was of the race of David, who was the Son of Mary, who was truly born and ate and drank, was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate, was truly crucified and died in the sight of those in heaven and on earth and those under the earth; who moreover was truly raised from the dead, His Father having raised Him, who in the like fashion will so raise us also who believe on Him.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Fashion, Jesus, Father

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• Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

  Milan Kundera

  Catholic, Prague, Empires

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• Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Rich, Poor

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• ...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.

  Paul Douglas

  Crazy, Dark, Opportunity

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• Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.

  Zoe Helene

  Loyalty, Mother, Running

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• Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

  Alan Keyes

  Christian, Religious, School

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• While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our readers will also do, between it and dogmatism. Dogmatism has been the bane of civilization and a curse to mankind. It has degraded our sex, stifled intelligent inquiry, and persecuted every independent reformer and every noble cause.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, Powerful, Believe

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• To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Receipts, Infallible

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