Hate Speech Quotes:

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

- Newton Lee

source: Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.88, Springer

topic: Hate, Lines, Speech, Hate Speech

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

- Dana Carvey

topic: Country, Hate, Thinking, Hate Speech

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

- Jane Elliott

topic: Hate, Issues, Political, Political Correctness, Hate Speech

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

- Walter Kirn

topic: Real, Hate, Alternatives, Hate Speech

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Inspiring, Importunate, Love And Hate

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom, Freedom Of Expression, Freedom Of The Press

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Love And Hate, Darfur

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Hate, Racism, Speech, Hate Speech

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.

- Mark Potok

source: "When Christians become a 'hated minority'" by John Blake, religion.blogs.cnn.com. May 5, 2013.

topic: Hate, Ears, Speech, Hate Speech

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

- Flemming Rose

source: Source: theundercurrent.org

topic: Hate, Men, Speech, Hate Speech

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Hate, College, Speech, Anti-american, College Campus

I should be able to express moral views on social issues without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach ‘tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.

- Kirk Cameron

source: "Kirk Cameron Says He Is a Victim of 'Hate Speech' and 'Slander' After He Calls Homosexuality 'Unnatural, Detrimental and Destructive' on National TV". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 07, 2012.

topic: Hate, Squares, Views, Social Issues, Hate Speech

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Hate, Ku Klux Klan, Groups, Remarks, Hate Speech

Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left's new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong on facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It's all they have left.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Hate, Psychological Disorders, Play, Political Discourse, Hate Speech

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

- Coretta Scott King

source: "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness, Importunate, Love And Hate

Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.

- Milo Yiannopoulos

topic: Hate, Justice, Political, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Hate, Passion, White, Whiteness, Otherness

Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today.

- Kweisi Mfume

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Hate, America, Groups, Hate Crime, Hate Groups

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

- Jim Goad

source: Source: love-and-pop.com

topic: Hate, Government, Law, Torque, English Speaking

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Friendship, Change, Love And Hate, Soul Force

The ultimate hate speech is to endorse homosexuality.

- Gordon Klingenschmitt

source: "Klingenschmitt: ‘The Ultimate Hate Speech Is To Endorse Homosexuality’". www.rightwingwatch.org. June 10, 2014.

topic: Hate, Insane, Speech, Hate Speech

Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.

- Ann Coulter

source: Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.21, Crown Forum

topic: Christian, Hate, Eye, Hate Speech

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

- will.i.am

source: Source: thesource.com

topic: Hate, Speech, Regulation, Libel, Hate Speech

I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.

- Simon Tam

topic: Football, Team, Hate, Hate Speech

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Hate, Gay, Doubt, Anti Gay, Hate Speech

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Hurt, Hate, Police, Cancellation, Accusing

In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

- Talal Asad

topic: Hate, Character, Law, Trademarks, Hate Speech

First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit and tone of your letter, and I think I did pretty well. []  I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh are unsightly-characterized as “hate speech.” 

- Dan Savage

topic: Hate, Thinking, Annoyed, Hate Speech, Signing Off