As a person, when you use insulting language to or against someone, it means that you are of a poorer breed. It means you are of lesser quality.
Excellent minds never insult. Excellent minds never abuse.
There are higher words of communication. Never defame. Never repeat a scandal. We should have too much rank for that. We should have too much excellence for that.
We should train ourselves to use excellent language and to speak in praise-worthy terms. Use helpful and comforting words. Leave the dirty talk and jobs to others.
There are no jokes with words. We don't use words anyhow and say we are just joking. The words we speak are spirit and they are life. They live on long after they are uttered.
Most of us say the wrong things now and then and leave out all the right things. Let's not be people who would say all the wrong things and scarcely say the right things.
There are some of us that whenever we say the right thing, the people around us think it's a mistake because the wrong things are more constant in our day-to-day communications. Let us not be that way.
I made up my mind a long ago to leave such talks to those who are untrained and to those who are uncivilized.
I make practice high and higher ideals now and then.
We can make a difference and we can start with how we talk to others and about others.
In our Political sector, we can run campaigns without being abusive, without being insulting. We should be bigger than that.
Talking cheap like that is for people who are of the lowest of classes. It is for the lowest of thinkers. Talking cheap like that is for people who don't have value or for people who don't know their value or people who don't know how to harness their value. We should be more than that.
We may not all be from one political party, but after all, is said and done, we will all still be a people of one nation.
Let this thought be so grounded in us as a people.
A long time ago, I decided that I should first of all see God in every man and treat him accordingly before I wait for him to prove me wrong.
Likewise, I've trained myself to first of all see every Nigerian as a good Nigerian and to treat him accordingly before I await for him to prove me wrong.
This stands true for anywhere I am also. I cannot first of all want to do bad to anyone. I'll first of all want to see the good in everyone before I would have them prove me wrong.
We can change our methods, our method of communication, our method of relating. We can change our way of doing things. The future should belong to us and not us just being a part of it.
Words are not mere. They can never be and will never be mere.
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