Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression offree speech and assembly.Men feared witches and burntwomen. It is the function ofspeech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis Brandeis, concurring,Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 376 (1927).
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield,Letters to his Son.
I'm either amutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. Peoplepity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants …Fear impliesrespect.
If we should classify one by one all those who hate others and injure others, should we find them to be universal in love or partial? Of course we should say they are partial. Now, since partiality against one another is the cause of the major calamities in the empire, then partiality is wrong.
Will you touch, will you mend me Christ? Won't you touch, will you heal me Christ? Will you kiss, can you cure me Christ? Won't you kiss, won't you pay me Christ?
See my eyes, I can hardly see See me stand, I can hardly walk I believe you can make me whole See my tongue, I can hardly talk.
See my skin, I'm a mass of blood See my legs, I can hardly stand I believe you can make me well See my purse, I'm a poor, poor man.
Theprivileged are often good at articulating injury but not always able to identify if they are actually experiencing it. There is a difference in being able to recognize the conditions under which injury has or is happening, and actually living, or having lived through it.
Megan: Sometimes when people are sick or hurt for a long time, like Elijah, they're mind gets hurt too. They start to think things that aren't true. He hold me what he thought about your father. It isn't true.
