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When Hitler attacked the Jews ... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was n ...

Martin Niemller

Nazis | Hitler, Adolf

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Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal ... of education and had recommended it to his tribe. His argument in its favor was, that if you had been to college and learnt to calculate, you could "keep 'um property,--no other way." He said that his boy was the best scholar in the school at Oldtown, to which he went with whites. He himself is a Protestant, and goes to church regularly at Oldtown. According to his account, a good many of his tribe are Protestants, and many of the Catholics also are in favor of schools. Some years ago they had a schoolmaster, a Protestant, whom they liked very well. The priest came and said that they must send him away, and finally he had such influence, telling them that they would go to the bad place at last if they retained him, that they sent him away. The school party, though numerous, were about giving up. Bishop Fenwick came from Boston and used his influence against them. But our Indian told his side that they must not give up, must hold on, they were the strongest. If they gave up, then they would have no party. But they answered that it was "no use, priest too strong, we'd better give up." At length he persuaded them to make a stand.
The priest was going for a sign to cut down the liberty-pole. So Polis and his party had a secret meeting about it; he got ready fifteen or twenty stout young men, "stript 'um naked, and painted 'um like old times," and told them that when the priest and his party went to cut down the liberty-pole, they were to rush up, take hold of it, and prevent them, and he assured them that there would be no war, only noise,--"no war where priest is." He kept his men concealed in a house near by, and when the priest's party were about to cut down the liberty-pole, the fall of which would have been a death-blow to the school party, he gave a signal, and his young men rushed out and seized the pole. There was a great uproar, and they were about coming to blows, but the priest interfered, saying, "No war, no war," and so the pole stands, and the school goes on still.
We thought that it showed a good deal of tact in him, to seize the occasion and take his stand on it; proving how well he understood those with whom he had to deal.

Henry David Thoreau

education | clergy | intolerance, religious

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The Catholic theological tradition is not a series of historically contiguous but different theologies; it is a continuous effort ...

Gustave Weigel

Catholicism | Protestantism

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There was a young lady called Alice
Who peed in a Catholic chalice. ...

Anonymous

Protestantism | religion

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I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is sa ...

Pierre Bayle

skepticism

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Well, I suppose it is the Protestant thing to do.

Samuel Beckett

Christianity | Christians | religion

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Pat: He was an Anglo-Irishman.
Meg: In the blessed name of God, what's that?
Pat: A Protestant with a horse.

Brendan Behan

Ireland and the Irish

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In the Catholic world, one can leave one's home and wander in various fields, but the tents of the Church are large, its compassio ...

Daniel Bell

Christianity | Christians | Judaism

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All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies ...

Edmund Burke

Protestantism | United States: people of | dissent

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The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

civilization | Protestantism

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