What he could never have expected was that his death might come at the hand of his son, whom he was steeping in his beliefs of white supremacy and its obsessions with weapons, racist speech and Nazi regalia.
Their weapons were speeches, letters, meetings with executives and attendance at publishing companies' annual meetings by virtue of having bought some of their stock.
I can't help but "assume" things when it's used; once an impartial and positive identifier of social justice now reduced to a conservative weapon of speech that shoots rusted pellets with bad aim.
His most powerful weapons were words, in books, newspaper columns, radio commentaries and speeches he wrote for labor chieftains.
When Obama said "the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech," he was indulging in a bit of wishful thinking.
He added that "the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression; it is more speech — the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect".
In interviews on Thursday, shopkeepers and residents in the Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiya expressed contempt for what they said was the cleric's quickness to turn to weapons and intemperate speeches.
We do so because given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression; it is more speech -- the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.
We do so because, given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech — the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.
While calling the video "crude and disgusting" Obama said the "strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech - the voice of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy".
Given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech -- the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.
