Stephen Hawking

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

English Physicist

Carmen Carrera

All you have to do is respect me. Use the right words. If you don't consider me a woman, then use trans woman. Whatever works for you. But don't try to use something that's a slur or something that's meant to degrade who we are.

American Entertainer

Donna Brazile

Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a 'nobody' - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is.

American Politician

Scott Sinclair

It's unacceptable, not just in football or sport, but in society. It needs to be kicked out. It needs to stop and be shown as unacceptable to use racial slurs or abuse the ethnicity of players.

Charles Barkley

In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.

American Baseball Player

Jami Attenberg

I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.

American Author

Franchesca Ramsey

It's important to understand you can't remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can.

American Comedian

Rupert Murdoch

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

American Publisher

P. J. O'Rourke

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

Ashley Walters

After one brandy, I'm already slurring. I'm quite a lightweight.

British Musician

Slurs are highly offensive and can harm social relations; use with caution.

Social Sensitivity

What constitutes a slur can vary between cultures; be aware of local sensitivities.

Cultural Awareness

Ensure clarity in speech; slurred words can lead to misunderstandings.

Contextual Clarity

In music, a slur creates a smooth transition for a more expressive performance.

Musical Expression

Slurring someone's reputation can lead to legal consequences like defamation lawsuits.

Legal Implications

 It was met with nostalgic aunts who missed seeing my knees in the shadow of skirts, who reminded me that my kind of attitude would never bring a husband home, that I exist for heterosexual marriage and child-bearing. And I swallowed their insults along with their slurs. Naturally, I did not come out of the closet.

Lee Mokobe: A powerful...

 Unfortunately, Lovecraft’s fear of the unknown found a less savory expression in his personal views. The author held strong racist views, and some of his works include crude stereotypes and slurs. But the rich world he created would outlive his personal prejudices. And after Lovecraft’s death,

Titan of terror: the...

 of water in my mouth and to drink it as a normal person would do it to just have a feeling of that water and then most of the times I'm doing a second set and then I'm slurring around my mouth and I'm adding oxygen through it because action helped water to grow the same

He Tastes Water Like...

 But in truth, what I really would like to explain to the public and to the audiences of MoMA is that the most interesting chairs are the ones that are actually made by a robot, like this beautiful chair by Dirk Vander Kooij, where a robot deposits a toothpaste-like slur

Paola Antonelli: Why I...

 but the truth is those remarks still have the same sting that they did years ago even if I don't show it's human nature to want to belong and want to participate but the next time you hear a sexist joke racial slur mean-spirited gossip

Bullying must end now PIPE...

 of him because of how long he left it him it was like they had a little toy and they wanted to see how at work what kinds of things did you hear from the officers did you hear any kind of slurs at all what do you mean sir were there

LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...

 and believe themselves to be unique, and I'm a millennial and an only child, so, duh! But my favorite, favorite, favorite is "cuck." It's a slur, short for "cuckold," for men who have been cheated on by their wives.

Empathy Is Not...

 are that it has “widespread, sustained, and meaningful use.” This clearly includes profanities, which were sometimes excluded from dictionaries in the past. Racial slurs also meet the criteria for inclusion,

How to get a word added...

 These guys seem to live beneath the bridges of said superhighway -- And they also missed the memo about the enlightenment of the internet age. I remember being called highly colorful racial slurs

A Black man goes...

 2. Ask them to raise their arms. If one drifts downward, that arm weakness is also a sign of a stroke. 3. Ask them to repeat a simple word or phrase. If their speech sounds slurred or strange,