Salman Rushdie Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. June 19, 1947
Birthday: June 19
For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
source: "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991. 
topic: Religious, Issues, Long, Religious Persecution
