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«[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.»
Author: Bayard Rustin
(Activist)
| Keywords:
back room, bigotry, birthplace, hatched, hatches, hatching, oppression, persecution, plots, schemes, sinister
«Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue»
Author: Charles Simmons
| About:
Bigotry
| Keywords:
argument, bigotry, endeavors, intolerance, modern-day, modern, persecution, persecutions, silenced, sword, tongue
«I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution»
Author: Francis Schaeffer
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deadly, in the long run, long run, persecution, pluralistic, secularism, straightforward, The Long Run
«As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.»
«But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.»
Author: Bible
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Barnabas, coasts, devout, expel, expelled, honourable, persecution, stirred, stirred up
«And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.»
«And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.»
Author: Bible
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abroad, apostles, consenting, Jerusalem, Judaea, persecution, regions, Samaria, Saul, scattered, The Apostle, The Apostles
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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crude, cruder, For any, honorable, indifferent, name, no matter, persecution, persecutions, required, sect, sort, sort of
«It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Persecution
| Keywords:
censure, eminent, fiery, illustrious, persecution
«It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abhorrence, anxious, expect, mortal, opposition, oppositions, persecution, persecutions, reform, reformer, reforming, society
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