Words have power. We discover this axiom at a very young age. Perhaps at the schoolyard during recess when someone taunts us or when we’re the taunter. We discover very quickly words can cut, wound, and be used as effectively and ruthlessly as a sword can be.
Inversely, we discover, also around the same time, that, in addition to the wounding power of words, words can be used to heal, comfort and dispense hope.
And somewhere in that gaping chasm between hurt and hope, words have the power to do everything imaginable. →
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Rhetorical Rhetoric
May 29, 2008
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Words have power. We discover this axiom at a very young age. Perhaps at the schoolyard during recess when someone taunts us or when we’re the taunter. We discover very quickly words can cut, wound, and be used as effectively and ruthlessly as a sword can be. Inversely, we discover, also around the same time, that, in addition to the wounding power of words, words can be used to heal, comfort and dispense hope. And somewhere in that gaping chasm between hurt and hope, words have the power to do everything imaginable. → Read more...
Barack ObamaBibleHillary ClintonProverbstongueWordwords