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persecution quotes

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“The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution; it's their best advertising.” Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.” Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
“The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world. Jealous for its own religious views, the world in turn charges the Gospel with being a subversive and licentious doctrine, offensive to God and...” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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