#offend

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#america #burning #civilized #confessed #hanging

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody. ↗

— Bill Haley

#because #care #lot #lyrics #offend

You don’t offend me. At least not until I change my name. Once I change it to Asshole, then I might be offended you keep calling me Jarod. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #offend #change

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#bit #complex #crack #even #extreme

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#call #connotations #couples #deny #evangelicals

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes. ↗

— Jim Costa

#also #children #counseling #crimes #horrible

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#every #every man #eyes #his #innocent

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time. ↗

— David Hackworth

#alive #boots #drill #fists #i

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#crime #especially #extinguish #happens #help