persecute

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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.

To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.

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It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy. Cyprian

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. Gertrude Stein

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power. Joseph McCabe

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. Alva Myrdal

To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well. Chinese Proverb

The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones. Dominican Proverb

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