William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

Please feel free to take this personally.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else..

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct

You are the only person here who has a right to say: "I told you so.

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

When you disagree with somebody else, they often tend to get very defensive. But that doesn't stop me from doing the kind of work that I want to do.

Some people, when they get criticism, they shy away from it.

As for how do I respond to those who want to throw stones, well, I don't.

Criticism doesn't worry me.

I'll take criticism. I know that's part and parcel of football. But when it's just reckless and aggressive, I don't listen.

I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.

I feel like people just try and throw a shot at me just so I can respond.

Got niggas reacting without a sinus cause what I'm working with is timeless.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

So don't blame me for the problems. You can't fault me for it. You can't blame me. You want to blame me but I'm just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.