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There is no such thing as a hate crime. -- Ron Paul
Because federal hate-crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society. -- Ron Paul
One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country. -- Anna Paquin
Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today. -- Kweisi Mfume
Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right. -- Cher
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers. -- Harvey Fierstein
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face. -- Carol Anshaw
Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime! -- Stephen Colbert
Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are among the three top reported hate crimes after race and religion, ... Our laws should not ignore that reality. -- Janet Reno
This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime. -- Lady Gaga
Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough. -- Margaret Cho
As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it. -- Abraham Foxman
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. -- John Conyers
Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony. -- Sherman Alexie
Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has been an undertone that has been ugly. Oftentimes, it has been directed at the Hispanic community. We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate as it has been conducted in Washington, and that is unacceptable. -- Barack Obama
We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous. -- Jesse Helms
If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime. -- Susan L. Taylor
I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror. -- Jean Racine
This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you. -- Philip Roth
I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are hate-crime people. -- Jen Kirkman
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. -- Malcolm X
I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense. -- Kamala Harris

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