Top Persecution Quotes
Persecution Definition
(n.) The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
(n.) The state or condition of being persecuted.
(n.) A carrying on; prosecution.
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...
Virginia Woolf
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dignity, empowerment, feminism, gender, history, misogyny, persecution, social norms, suppression, witches
Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution...
Luther Burbank
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acceptance, beliefs, evidence, habits, humanity, ideas, persecution, practice, science, science and religion