Quotes on Religious Persecution

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.