"There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence."
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"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."
"I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really."
"Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin."
"A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally."
"I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man."
"You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth."
"I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days."
"Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!"
"They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane."
"There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel."
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
"I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country."
"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."
"Now we the American working population Hate the fact that eight hours a day Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us And we may not hate our jobs But we hate jobs in general That don't have to do with fighting our own causes. We the American working population Hate the nine-to-five, day-in day-out When we'd rather be supporting ourselves By being paid to perfect the pastimes That we have harbored based solely on the fact That it makes us smile if it sounds dope."
"I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own."
"Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know."
"There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me."
"I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know."
"The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free."