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.
… the most hated and calumniated man of his times.
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
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.
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.
It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
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.
