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«This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.»
Author: Elie Wiesel
(Writer)
| Keywords:
expressed, first century, humanize, humanized, humanizing, identity, members, persecuted, persecutes, solidarity, The Lonely, twenty-first
«Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.»
«We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; / Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; / Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.»
«Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: / Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.»
«We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed»
Author: Bible
| About:
God
| Keywords:
abandoned, clay, crushed, hard pressed, jars, jars of clay, perplex, perplexed, perplexing, persecuted, pressed, press down, strike hard, surpassing
«The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
appearance, deride, derided, derides, dislike, dread, familiar, first appearance, hence, innovator, innovators, madmen, notions, persecuted, persecutes
«Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
persecuted, persecutes, persecuting, virtue, wick, wicked, wickedest
«To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
announce, announces, announcing, infallible, persecuted, persecutes, persecuting, receipt, receipts, truths
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