Ravi Zacharias

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

American Author

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.

Kirsten Powers

When illiberal feminists aren't delegitimizing female dissenters from their worldview as fake women, they are portraying them in such a hyper-sexualized way that they are reduced to nonhuman objects.

Carol P. Christ

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.

Educator

Pete Seeger

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

American Musician

Robert Jackson

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

American Statesman

Norman Davies

The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts.

British Historian

Margo Jefferson

I'm a chronicler of Negroland, a participant-observer, an elegist, dissenter, and admirer; sometime expatriate, ongoing interlocutor.

American Critic

Archibald MacLeish

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

American Poet

Amal Clooney

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

Lebanese Activist

Often used when someone stands apart from popular opinion or majority in a group.

Social Minority

Being a dissenter doesn't always carry a negative connotation; can imply integrity.

Not Always Negative

Commonly used in contexts of debates or discussions where opposition arises.

Common in Debates

Used historically to describe those who separated from the Church of England.

Historical Religious Context

Dissenters sometimes faced punishment; reflects past societal restrictions.

Identity and Persecution

Now more broadly refers to those differing in religious beliefs anywhere.

Broader Religious Use

Specific to U.S. legal language, referring to a justice's disagreement.

Legal Specificity

In legal context, a dissenter may offer a different insight on law interpretation.

Minority Opinion

Refers to judges, not jurors; don't confuse dissenting opinions with jury decisions.

Not a Juror

 instead, they sincerely believed in witchcraft, and thought they were doing good by rooting it out in their communities. Institutions of power enabled real harm to be done on the basis of these beliefs. But there were dissenters all along– jurists, scholars, and physicians countered books

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 rigid moral codes, modest clothing, banishment of dissenters, and regulation of every aspect of people's lives and relationships. For Atwood, the parallels to Massachusett's Puritans were personal as well as theoretical. She spent several years studying the Puritans at Harvard

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 anyone with the temerity to disagree as uncivil. And so civility talk in the 17th century becomes a really effective way for members of the religious establishment to silence, suppress, exclude dissenters outside of the established church,

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 killing any suspected spies or dissenters. He also helped peasants build health clinics and schools, taught them to read, and even recited poetry to them. His harsh discipline was necessary against a much stronger enemy

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 of decline in freedom worldwide. And this is not just because of the actions of authoritarian governments. It's also because democratic governments are increasingly cracking down on dissenters, whistle-blowers

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 is just reaching its pinnacle. He's been christened the voice of a generation, and he's churning out classic songs at a seemingly impossible rate, but there's a small minority of dissenters, and they claim

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 and the essential point of the game is to get very small ball from one place into a hole in as few strokes as possible, and that walking was not essential, but incidental. Now, there were two dissenters,

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 get a very small ball from one place into a hole and as few strokes as possible and that walking was not essential but incidental now there were two dissenters one of whom was Justice

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 each culture all around the world they all begin the same way that one day the heavens opened and this silver cosmic egg dissenter from the sky and