Top Persecution Quotes
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
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.
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