Word: persecutees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Why Pogroms, Mr. Hecht? But a few years ago a "famous lady" buttonholed Ben, begged him to tell her what it was about Jews that made people persecute them. "Only a Jew can speak on this subject," she explained. Ben was shocked. He had never imagined that the famous lady...
"We must remember that we do not persecute anyone for religion. We believe that religion is a misguiding institution and struggle against it by education.
Hangover Square, by the author of two hair-raising plays -Rope's End (1929) and this winter's Angel Street -is a psychiatric case history written as a horror story. Its victim, George Harvey Bone, is a big, bewildered Englishman who suffers from "dead moods." Textbooks would call...
The louse possesses qualities of dogged persistence and patient diligence which arouse that admiration, thinly masked by a pretense of loathing, which men similarly feel for competing races whom they fear, and, therefore, persecute. (We refer to the "Blond Aryan" complex. . . .) -Hans Zinsser: Rats, Lice and History.
> How could the Nazis destroy all freedom, brutally persecute intelligent minorities, regiment the individual, half-starve the whole population, and yet retain the support of an overwhelming majority of Germans?