The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
Our nation is built on a proud history of providing refuge for the poor, persecuted, and disenfranchised.
I've personally been on the outside sometimes. But I was - I personally was never persecuted especially in the way in which sharing my own experiences.
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
… the most hated and calumniated man of his times.
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.
It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
I am one of the most attacked persons.
I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
Religion has always persecuted science.
