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• The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, May, Littles

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

  Pope Francis

  Dream, Giving Up, Today

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• If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

  Richard Dawkins

  Forgiving, Generations, Why Not

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  War, Civilization, Citizens

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• The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit....A christian is fearless.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Brave, Fearless

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• Stereotypes 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 Easterbrook

  Christian, Identity, Stereotype

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• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

  Pope Francis

  Reality, Order, Leader

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• The proclamation of Jesus is not a veneer: the proclamation of Jesus goes straight to the bones, heart, goes deep within and change us. And the spirit of the world does not tolerate it, will not tolerate it, and therefore, there is persecution.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Doe

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• Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

  Walter E. Williams

  People, World, Slavery

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• Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Christian, Temptation, Challenges

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• In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, 'Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.'

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Country, Eye

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

  George O. Wood

  Who We Are, Preaching

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• The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

  C. I. Scofield

  Faithful, Promise, Church

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• In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

  Will Durant

  Christian, Religious, Rome

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• If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

  Arthur Koestler

  Israel, Way, Power Corrupts

  Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail

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• Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.

  Isaiah Berlin

  War, Tyrants, Yesterday

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• As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Son, Sacrifice

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.32

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• The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, War, Years

  "SCIENTIST AT WORK: Steven Weinberg; Physicist Ponders God, Truth and 'Final Theory'" by James Glanz, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2000.

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• Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

  Thomas Paine

  Weed, Together, Suspicion

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.

  Laurence Sterne

  Religious, Differences, Spirit

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...”, p.43

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• Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Doctrine, Tradition, Absence

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Adversity, Forgiving, Saint

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• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

  Freya Stark

  Daughter, War, Sleep

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Persecution matures young rebels.

  Han Suyin

  Rebel, Young

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• We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

  Samuel Roth

  Men, Pretending, Jew

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