Top Persecution Quotes
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
Paul Robeson
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
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton
Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
Arthur Bryant
John Paul Stevens 
Charles Simmons 
Hosea Ballou 
Strom Thurmond 
Rick Schroder 
Francis Schaeffer 
Anatole France 
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy 
70% of people like this quote
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
Paul Robeson
63% of people like this quote
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
61% of people like this quote
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton
58% of people like this quote
Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
Arthur Bryant
58% of people like this quote
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Richard Le Gallienne
58% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
Anatole France
56% of people like this quote
Popular Persecution Authors
Bertrand RussellGeorge EliotJohn F. KennedyEdmund BurkeJoseph AddisonJonathan SwiftEdwin Louis ColeWilliam Butler YeatsThomas PaineAnatole FranceAyn RandJohn Stuart MillSargent ShriverBill CondonAlexander Hamilton
Richard Le GallienneHosea BallouPaul RobesonGregg EasterbrookImelda MarcosHideki TojoFrank Moore ColbyCharles SimmonsDaniel D. PalmerRick SchroderThomas BabingtonJack SteinbergerFrancis SchaefferRobert RainyStrom Thurmond
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