"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation." ― Hosea Ballou Topic(s): Religion More From Hosea Ballou "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature." "Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character." "Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." More In Religion "The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."― Mao Zedong "The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand."― Charles Eastman "Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion."― Taslima Nasrin