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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
What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry. -- Flemming Rose
There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence. -- Newton Lee
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
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
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
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
The ultimate hate speech is to endorse homosexuality. -- Gordon Klingenschmitt
Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it. -- Ann Coulter
Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today. -- Kweisi Mfume
College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry. -- Ann Coulter
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
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
Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder. -- Mark Potok
Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers. -- Stefan Molyneux
Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook -- Mark Zuckerberg
Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc. -- will.i.am
I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.' -- Louis C. K.
I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. -- Ed Gillespie
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I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech. -- Richard Griffiths
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. -- John Abbott
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate. -- George Steiner
Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. -- Henry Hyde
I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech. -- Donald Trump
Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness. -- Jim Goad

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