Russell Brand

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

English Comedian

Sharice Davids

Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.

American Politician

Judith Viorst

Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.' And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you.

American Author

Jacky Rosen

Our country is a nation of immigrants, who, for centuries, have come here, fleeing persecution, bringing their dreams, their fears, and their hopes for a better life.

Angelina Jolie

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

American Actress

Frank Lowy

As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.

Australian Businessman

Ruth Westheimer

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

American Celebrity

Tyrone Hayes

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

American Scientist

Conrad Black

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

British Businessman

Anita Bryant

The more I get persecuted, the more people knock on my door in support.

American Singer

Understand that 'persecute' implies harsh and continuous mistreatment, not a single or mild incident.

Severe Unfairness

'Persecute' often involves intolerance towards someone's identity or beliefs.

Intolerance Aspect

Historically, 'persecute' has been used in context of grave injustices, especially in religious or ethnic conflicts.

Historical Usage

'Persecute' conveys more than annoyance; it suggests ongoing deliberate actions to irk someone.

Annoyance Scale

The word is often used in a lighter, more personal context, contrasting its other, more severe meaning.

Personal Relations

Sometimes used figuratively, not implying actual hostility, but rather jest or mild irritation.

Figurative Use

 Helplessly and hopelessly, I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world in which the voices were destined to become both my persecutors and my only perceived companions. They told me, for example, that if I proved myself worthy of their help, then they could change my life back to how it had been,

The voices in my head PIPE...

 But the leopard has to continually protect its prey during the daytime or else it will be destroyed. Once the vultures come down, they they just demolish a huge carcass in a very short space of time. The leopard was being persecuted by these magpies that would, that would sort of hop around it,

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 relating to the status of refugees in response to mass persecutions and displacements of the Second World War. It defines a refugee as someone who is outside their country of nationality, and is unable to return to their home country because of well-founded fears of being persecuted.

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 But we have to be at the table. We have to stop giving up our position, because by remaining silent, we allow for the continued persecution and abuse of women worldwide. By saying that we're going to fight for women's rights

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 family planning. By providing men and women the right to choose when, how and if to raise a family through reproductive health clinics and education, access to contraception and freedom devoid of persecution

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 cause of bovine tb the fact that they can carry the disease still fuels calls for a countrywide cull they were once relentlessly persecuted for sport dug out and baited by dogs now they're protected by law

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 abused assaulted persecuted oppressed mutilated killed you begin to feel deprived or if it's an issue of identity and belonging or ideology extremist ideology where really its fascistic in

An inside look at...

 worlds housed in refugee camps the Padang have drawn crowds of Western tourists who travel to witness their ancient ways unexpectedly what was once a persecuted mark of identity is now a

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 because of their quirky looks an elusive nocturnal lifestyle aye eyes have become part of madagascar folklore they're feared and persecuted as the