“To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well”
Chinese Proverbs
“Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”
Voltaire
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue”
Charles Simmons
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution”
John Milton
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