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So artfully can this people dissemble their sentiments that we had not been able hitherto to distinguish our real from our pretended favourers; but as soon as this Prince began to give evident tokens of his hatred, even in the lifetime of the Emperor, we saw all the courtiers and governors who had treated us with such a show of friendship declare against us, and persecute us as disturbers of the public tranquillity, who had come into Aethiopia with no other intention than to abolish the ancient laws and customs of the country, to sow divisions between father and son, and preach up a revolution.

I should persecute anyone who would not show me respect.

"And do you seek to deprive us of that?" asked Hepzibah, unable to restrain her bitter contempt." Is this your price for ceasing to persecute poor Clifford?"

The man in power radiates, you know; and since you are there, why should you continue to persecute him who had just fallen into disgrace, and fallen from such a height?"

"And an unfortunate one," replied Gines, "for misfortune always persecutes good wit."

But it is unlikely that Geldof handing back the Freedom of Dublin scroll will make any difference to the persecuted Rohingya Muslims or those who persecute them.

"Today, criminalization of same-sex relationships is seen in more than 70 countries, and in some of them the death penalty still exists," he said, speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, according to which even if the state does not have laws that equate homosexuality to crime, they can act through "normative acts relating to the rules of public order that are used to persecute people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity."

"This is why they persecute the Christians of the Orient and the minorities," he added, remarking that France was mobilised to provide humanitarian assistance to those being persecuted.

I CANNOT understand how "God's Chosen People", who were so horrendously persecuted during the 1930s, could possibly bring themselves to persecute innocent civilians in Gaza.

In the criminal courts which persecute the people-I had a level of trust in the system-back in the day before the Govt made significant changes to the powers of the attorney general and started dictating-what and who could be persecuted-we are seeing that unfold today-Banks and Roastbusters concerns-the Police are not to blame at all-Govt policy is-suppressing and preventing reporting of crime and investigation-so as to look good and protect power.

Firasat, who converted to Christianity in 2004, (http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/criticizing-islam-considered-national-security-threat/) said the reason he left Islam was because he "realized that what I was following for 26 years of my life is not a religion but in reality is a political dictatorship which persecutes and teaches to persecute through the orders and teaching of a self-proclaimed prophet (Muhammad)."

As mentioned in your article, South Asian countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka also persecute their journalists thus placing a ban on freedom of expression and curbing independent reporting.