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• The state was divided in sentiment during those years; but James Cudworth wrote that “he that will not whip and lash, persecute, and punish men that differ in matters of religion, must not sit on the bench nor sustain any office in the commonwealth.” Cudworth himself was deposed; and it happens that Hathorne's terms of service, as recorded, seem at first to leave a gap barely wide enough to include this troublesome period. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
• Conscience made Sir Thomas More persecute, and glory in the persecution of heretics, [553] and conscience earned Mary her epithet "Bloody". —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri VIII - A.F. Pollard
• That does not mean to persecute or otherwise violate those who through some biological or emotional problem fall into a grey area.
• Like there aren't enough people outside their religion to persecute, they need to persecute those in their own religion. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• What are we to make of Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden, pathetic political hacks who have threatened to prosecute the Bush administration, or maybe we should say "persecute", if the two wayward politicians become President and Vice-President? asked Obama "whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House." —  Liberally Conservative

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