Sample sentences for PERSECUTION

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Definition

very bad and unfair treatment of others — usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs

persecution = very bad and unfair treatment

persecuted = treated badly in an unfair manner

And some of you have come from areas where your quest—quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have a Dream

persecution = bad, ongoing, and unfair treatment

Lip-lip had selected White Fang for his special object of persecution.
Jack London -- White Fang

persecution = bad, ongoing, and unfair treatment

The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.
George Orwell -- 1984

persecuted = ongoing unfair treatment of others — usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persecution = bad and unfair treatment of a group of people

"Well I don't know for certain," he said, "they're supposed to change money or somethin', but that ain't no cause to persecute 'em."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persecute = treat badly and unfairly

Jem, it's not right to persecute anybody, is it?
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persecute = treat badly and unfairly

"Old Adolf Hitler has been prosecutin' the-"
"Persecuting Cecil...."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persecuting = treating badly and unfairly

Over here we don't believe in persecuting anybody.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persecuting = treating badly and unfairly

Miss Gates said, "When you get to high school, Cecil, you'll learn that the Jews have been persecuted since the beginning of history, even driven out of their own country."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persecuted = treated badly and unfairly

In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

persecution = bad and unfair treatment of a group of people

He, whose persecutions had been the cause of my sin!
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

persecutions = unfair treatment

My ancestors arrived in the Solo-Khumbu region fleeing from persecution in the lowlands.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
... The Bishop's middle years in New Mexico had been clouded by the persecution of the Navajos and their expulsion from their own country.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
If the country was better for the movement that persecuted me, I was still in favor of it.
Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl
Nirriti smiled and said, " 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.'
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
It is fortified By persecution: supreme, so long as men will die for it.
T.S. Eliot -- Murder in the Cathedral
Catholics are persecuted, treated like dogs!
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

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