Persecution Quotes
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![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
![Voltaire](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1393683411i/5754446._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Philosophical Dictionary
― Philosophical Dictionary
![Philip Pullman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614625372i/3618._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pursuit of innocent and crazy old women, and from the Puritans in America burning and hanging the witches — and it comes not only from the Christian church but also from the Taliban. Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don't accept him. Wherever you look in history, you find that. It’s still going on.”
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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Benjamin Franklin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215314094i/289513._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.
[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
![E.M. Forster](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1402057803i/86404._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“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.”
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![Billie-Jo Williams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1339440769i/5848928._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.”
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![Richard Wurmbrand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1501390657i/44578._UX200_CR0,62,200,200_.jpg)
“It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.”
― Tortured for Christ
― Tortured for Christ
![John Adams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1436663908i/1480._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact. There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny, or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel. In England itself, it is punished by boring through the tongue with a red-hot poker. In America it is not much better; even in our Massachusetts, which, I believe, upon the whole, is as temperate and moderate in religious zeal as most of the States, a law was made in the latter end of the last century, repealing the cruel punishments of the former laws, but substituting fine and imprisonment upon all those blasphemies upon any book of the Old Testament or New. Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any arguments for investigation into the divine authority of those books? Who would run the risk of translating Volney's Recherches Nouvelles? Who would run the risk of translating Dupuis? But I cannot enlarge upon this subject, though I have it much at heart. I think such laws a great embarrassment, great obstructions to the improvement of the human mind. Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws... but as long as they continue in force as laws, the human mind must make an awkward and clumsy progress in its investigations. I wish they were repealed.
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, January 23, 1825}”
― The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, January 23, 1825}”
― The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams
![E.A. Bucchianeri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1517071693i/2798990._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
![Amy Harmon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341709289i/5829056._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― From Sand and Ash
― From Sand and Ash
![Alistair Begg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1401684785i/387751._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.”
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![Oscar A. Romero](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461079643i/132793._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.”
― The Violence Of Love
― The Violence Of Love
“Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man: We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out.”
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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
![John Stuart Mill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1542512885i/57651._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.”
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![Amy Harmon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341709289i/5829056._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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?”
― From Sand and Ash
― From Sand and Ash
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Shūsaku Endō](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1242087808i/14164._UY200_CR22,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I do not believe that God has given us this trial to not purpose. I know that the day will come when we will clearly understand why this persecution with all it's sufferings has been bestowed upon us -- for everything that Our Lord does is for our good. And yet, even as I write these words I feel the oppressive weight in my heart of those last stammering words of Kichijiro in the morning of his departure: "Why has Deus Sama imposed this suffering on us?" and then the resentment in those eyes that he turned upon me. "Father", he had said "what evil have we done?"
I suppose I should simply cast from my mind these meaningless words of the coward; yet why does his plaintive voice pierce my breast with tall the pain of a sharp needle? Why has Our Lord imposed this torture and this persecution on poor Japanese peasants? No, Kichijiro was trying to express something different, something even more sickening. The silence of God. Already twenty years have passed since the persecution broke out; the black soil of Japan has been filled with the lament of so many Christians; the red blood of priests has flowed profusely; the walls of churches have fallen down; and in the face of this terrible and merciless sacrifice offered up to Him, God has remained silent.”
― Silence
I suppose I should simply cast from my mind these meaningless words of the coward; yet why does his plaintive voice pierce my breast with tall the pain of a sharp needle? Why has Our Lord imposed this torture and this persecution on poor Japanese peasants? No, Kichijiro was trying to express something different, something even more sickening. The silence of God. Already twenty years have passed since the persecution broke out; the black soil of Japan has been filled with the lament of so many Christians; the red blood of priests has flowed profusely; the walls of churches have fallen down; and in the face of this terrible and merciless sacrifice offered up to Him, God has remained silent.”
― Silence
![Tertullian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1296749695i/319733._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.”
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![Anthony Burgess](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1484769559i/5735._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.”
― Earthly Powers
― Earthly Powers
![Lesslie Newbigin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1394343397i/110888._CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.”
― The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission
― The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission
![Amy Harmon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341709289i/5829056._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.”
― From Sand and Ash
― From Sand and Ash
![Chaim Potok](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1472717039i/7385._UY200_CR45,0,200,200_.jpg)
“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.”
― My Name Is Asher Lev
― My Name Is Asher Lev
![Brother Andrew](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1323705672i/46742._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.”
― Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ
― Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ
“And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.”
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![Mosab Hassan Yousef](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1724785943i/3392053._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion is not the solution. Religion without Jesus is just self-righteousness. Freedom from oppression will not resolve things either. Delivered from the oppression of Europe, Israel became the oppressor. Delivered from persecution, Muslims became persecutors. Abused spouses and children often go on to abuse spouses and children. It is a cliché, but it’s still true: hurt people, unless they are healed, hurt people.”
― Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
― Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
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