“The only thing they could do to me was to kill me, and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.”— Fannie Lou Hamer
“I'm constantly being targeted by the U.S. government. They're trying to shut me down.”— John McAfee
“Nor are we ashamed to be called Christians, because the name is hateful to the ignorant.”— Marcus Minucius Felix
“Hindus have been the most persecuted people in the world. Yet, they are the most tolerant.”— Francois Gautier
“I have been accounted a persecutor; but I would have this to be observed, that I have been persecuted.”— Thomas Harrison
“Oppression and persecution cannot exterminate us. No nation on earth has survived such struggles and sufferings as we have.”— Theodor Herzl
“Whenever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth is on the persecuted side.”— Hugh Latimer
“I feel that we are the victims of the most monstrous frame-up in the history of this country.”— Julius Rosenberg
“The page of history teems with the foulest blot upon the name and nature of humanity - persecution for conscience sake.”— Anna Seward
“The Catholic Church cannot be neutral when God is denied and religion is persecuted.”— Francis Spellman
“You cannot get rid of us by inflicting cruelty. Your cruelty is a bait that wins men for our school.”— Tertullian