Persecute

//ˈpɝsəkjut//

"Persecute" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Arabs persecute me.

In France, we leave alone those who start fires, but we persecute those who sound the alarm.

I do not believe progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group. If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray.

Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

Sedition laws are usually used to persecute peaceful left-wing activists.

I persecute him.

I persecute.

Yes, it's better to land on the Sun at night. That's what the Kabyles want to do too, so that those who persecute them don't know where they've been.

He who persecutes one will persecute all.

I have heard, brethren, how sharply Antichrist persecuteth you, in vexing the faithful servants of Christ with divers and strange kinds of afflictions.

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"Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."

One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.

Humans have been persecuting wolves in this forest for centuries.

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