persecuted

Meaning

of Persecute

Synonyms

Examples

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe. Elie Wiesel

It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians. Bertrand Russell

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. Cesare Pavese

Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace. E. M. Forster

You may as well die fighting the enemy than live exploited and be persecuted by him. African Proverb