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'''"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,"''' was a children's nursery rhyme which meant that though you can hurt someone physically, words cannot deeply harm a strong person. During the 21st century, it transformed<ref>https://tinybuddha.com/blog/words-hurt-just-like-sticks-stones/</ref><ref>https://www.iafc.org/blogs/blog/iafc/2017/06/16/sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones-but-words-will-never-hurt-me-</ref><ref>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-sense/201105/sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones-words-will-cut-me-deeply</ref> into, '''"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me."'''<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236107430_Sticks_and_stones_may_break_your_bones_but_words_will_always_hurt_you_A_review_of_Cyberbullying</ref><ref>https://seatheworldpositively.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones-and-words-will-always-hurts-me/</ref><ref>https://psych2go.net/sticks-and-stones-may-break-your-bones-but-words-will-always-hurt-you-more/</ref>
The quote originally appeared in 1862 in an article from ''The Christian Recorder'', the publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.<ref>https://www.capjournal.com/opinions/columnist/sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones/article_33b8ed76-4841-11e8-92b9-df062ac3f18a.html</ref>
[[Conservatives]] have long opposed the weakening of society by social justice warriors, and have frequently hearkened back to the old "sticks and stones" expression.<ref>https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-happened-sticks-stones</ref><ref>https://pjmedia.com/blog/what-ever-happened-to-sticks-and-stones/</ref>
==External Links==
* [https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81140577| Dave Chappelle: Sticks and Stones], ''Netflix''.
* [https://www.prageru.com/video/sticks-and-stones/| Sticks and Stones], ''Prager University''.
==References==
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[[Category:Political Correctness]]