Quotes About Hateful Speech

#1. For us to respond in that way to hateful speech ... we empower the worst of us .. to create chaos around the world.

Barack Obama

#2. Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Georges Braque

#3. Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?

A.D. Posey

#4. And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.

Antonin Scalia

#5. There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

Robert Breault

#6. I will speak only those things that I want to see in my life and the life of others. Whatever I speak into the lives of others will come back to me therefore I choose to be careful with what I say.

Charlene Brown

#7. When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Woodrow Wilson

#8. For a writer, grief is a reservoir, boredom is recuperation and happiness is rust.

Ashutosh Gupta

#9. I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.

John Lewis

#10. Where's the gold?" I demanded. "Don't make me unleash my sword's playlist.

Rick Riordan

#11. They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.
"You?"
"Great."
They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

Louise Penny

#12. The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

Ace Frehley

#13. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip. Bury the liars and the wicked under stones until they say no more. More weight, hallelujah.

Joe Hill