RE: The word, the most powerful weapon
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The word is powerful because it instigates action and frames impression. But the word is nothing next to action.
We have a saying in the U. S. : Talk is cheap. Action is not cheap.
Remember Hamlet. Frozen in thought, in endless words.
Language is more a vessel of thought than an instigator. We reveal our prejudice, it is true through words, but the prejudice came first. That's why words elicit such powerful reactions. Because the 'wrong' words defy our prejudice.
A demagogue, master of words, learns how to feed upon the prejudice of the audience. The demagogue does not create that prejudice but fuels it and molds it to a purpose.
The first person had to be a man, because a man wrote the first Bible. Jesus had to be 'white', because a white man wrote the Bible. The words used reinforce a prejudice, a preconception.
Anyway, that's what I think. A provocative essay. Thank you!