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“Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.”

Pay Prejudice Persecution Tribute

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.”

Men Doe Prejudice Helpless Persecution

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.”

People Memories Powerful Generations Historical Persecution Present Day Better Now

Author:Gregg Easterbrook

“[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe.”

Years States Problem Church Religious Europe Constitution Heritage Intolerance Avoiding Persecution Church And State Separation Of Church And State Separation Between Church And State Religious Intolerance

Book:Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context

Source: Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context

“Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe.”

“Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government denominated the law of God. To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law.”

Country States Government Law Evil Church Religious Modern Divine Pages Constitution Victim Train Persecution Defining Violation Modern History Divine Law Religious Persecution

Author:Richard Mentor Johnson

“President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.”

Government Given Nations President Religious Rights Creator Who We Are President Obama Persecution Freedom Of Religion Religious Persecution

Author:Denis McDonough

“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.”

Years Stills Real Five Thirds Property Five Years Legislation Persecution Berlin November Anti Semitic Real Property

Book:Unfinished victory

Source: Unfinished victory

“Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.”

World Christian Persecution Atrocities

Author:Conrad Black

“When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.”

Growing Up Our Lives Growing Generations Everyday Jew Burden Everyday Life Persecution Jewish Family

Author:Bruce Feiler

“The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.”

Littles Whole Christianity Prove Allies Persecution Foe

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.”

Knows Wells Christian Together Church Fire Blood Tears Pure Hatred Persecution Clay Statues Marble Hardened

Author:Virchand Gandhi