161 Quotes About Persecution

[H]as 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?"[1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times, December 12, 1991)]

Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

Maybe people had no choice but I wonder sometimes what would have happened if everyone without a choice would have made a choice anyway. If we all chose not to participate. Not to be bullied. Not to take up arms. Not to persecute. What would happen then?

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

They can take our homes, our possessions. Our families. Our lives. They can drive us out, like they've driven us out before. They can humiliate us and dehumanize us. But they cannot take our thoughts. They cannot take our talents. They cannot take our knowledge, or our memories, or our minds. In music there is no bondage. Music is a door, and the soul escapes through the melody.

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

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

The mob is the most deadly of all critics in that it thinks critically only towards critical thinkers.