Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religions, or religions established by law.

Thomas Paine

Rights of Man

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Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man. London: J. S. Jordan, 1791.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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