#persecution

At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted “for My sake. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#persecution #men

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. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#disease #hatred #music #persecution #prejudice

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. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#better now #day #fear #generation #historical

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. ↗

— George Eliot

#man #may #opposition #persecution #sweet

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#case #commit #conduct #crime #doctrine

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#develop #history #humour #i #i think

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#because #criticism #easier #first #first law

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#every #grounds #intolerance #kind #legislation

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#always #another #commonplaces #dictum #experience

Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps and weeping wounds of scrofula. The poorest of the market. At Kate's feet, Drina. Her scarf and shirt were torn open. ↗

— Erin Bow

#courageous #friendship #loyalty #marketplace #mob