“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
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”
Voltaire
“I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution”
Francis Schaeffer
“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law”
Thomas Paine
“[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.”
Bayard Rustin
