"The crime is still a crime, regardless of whether it's a hateful one targeted at a specific group."
"She was taken advantage of because of her kind nature and ultimately she was absolutely a victim of a hate crime."
"The kind of people who are engaged in hate crime against somebody like yourself are people feeling those very strong emotions like disgust or contempt, which is due to their inability to deal with their own feelings."
"The racist, homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is an affront to our humanity."
"There is no such thing as 'racially charged.' This attack was not 'possibly' homophobic. It was a racist and homophobic attack."
"I am proud to support calls to recognize misogyny as a hate crime."
"A racially motivated hate crime is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation."
"There is a link between recent hate speech and hate crime." - Sophia Smith Galer
"They yelled racist slurs like 'ching chong' and sprayed her with pepper spray."
"Getting murdered for being Asian is as hateful as it gets."
"I think it really is significant when we had so many people show up for jury duty that questioned even the reason for a hate crimes charge in this case to see them come back after listening to this evidence sends a very powerful message."
"Smollett concocted a deeply flawed hate crime but the far left immediately rallied around him regardless of the facts and instantly made him a hero."
"Breaking Republican lawmakers in Florida have proposed a bill that would make anti-Semitic acts hate crimes."
"We are relentless in our efforts to combat hate crimes, to support the communities terrorized by them, and to hold accountable those who perpetrate them."
"Mayor de Blasio called the attack domestic terrorism and an act of Asian hate."
"Forcibly cutting the hair of an Amish woman or the beard of an Amish man is treated as a hate crime."
"If you try to kill someone, if you kill someone in an attempt to kill several people based on their race, color, or creed, how is that not a terrorist act?"
"It's literally pride month, like that's a hate crime."
"2018 saw most religious hate crime, most deaths in decade."
"This individual came here with the expressed purpose of taking as many black lives as he possibly could."
"It means that if someone belongs to those protected characteristics, if you commit a crime against them, you're basically going to be sentenced for longer."
"It's looking like this was a homophobic hate crime."
"Hate against alternative subcultures is now considered a hate crime in seven different police forces across the UK."
"The brothers stand by their testimony that this was a staged hate hoax by Smollett."
"His murder was very clearly a hate crime. I think that's very easy for anyone to see."
"Your intent was to really to harm as many people as you can and main intent was to spread fear resentment and hatred throughout this country."
"Sophie Lancaster was murdered just for being different."
"This is a dark day in Jacksonville's history. Any loss of life is tragic, but the hate that motivated the shooter's Killing Spree adds an additional layer of heartbreak."
"Loss of life is tragic, but the hate that motivated the shooter's Killing Spree adds an additional layer of heartbreak." - Sheriff of Jacksonville
"The FBI has completed its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime."
"Jody was murdered because of prejudice, because of his sexuality."
"Gendron's motive for the mass shooting was to prevent black people from replacing white people."
"Hate crimes violate the dignity and the rights of Asian Americans."
"Words matter when it comes to that law enforcement officials say the shooter is a white male in his 20s who is motivated by hate."
"Evidence that an offense is motivated by bias, prejudice, or hatred can be taken into account in sentencing."
"That was a hate crime and it was quite frankly transphobic."
"Does anyone want to press charges? It's kind of a hate crime."
"Who are we to question what they thought it was? And so when you have people now questioning them because the FBI found... that it wasn't a hate crime under federal law, I... that that is crazy to me."
"What happened to us was a mass hate crime."
"...when so many seem to react to this horrific attack with glee, seem to celebrate the rape and the torture..."
"Misogyny is a hate crime, yeah yeah."
"There is nothing worse exponentially than to be a victim of a hate crime."
"Hate crimes are different from other crimes of violence as they attack a person or a community’s identity—some core, immutable characteristic that strikes at the heart of who they are."
"I felt that from the beginning, you know, that it was done out of hate."
"There is no place for hate crime in our society."
"The concept of the hate crime must go away so people can say what they want to say regardless of whose feelings are hurt."
"Hate crime needs to be aggressively prosecuted."
"I'm very proud of the hate crime act."
"Parental alienation is a direct hate crime and is direct child abuse."
"The three bombs were not just an attack on gays and the ethnic communities in Brixton and Brick Lane, but were a threat to the whole of society."
"We have no tolerance for hate crime in this city."
"If you see or hear about any potential hate crime, regardless of who it is targeting, please report it."