But in the context of the story, Young comes off as a smooth-talking fanatic theocrat, his nearly every utterance sounding like a threat; one can imagine him animated as a Disney villain.

So the key legal question facing the court is whether utterances can become illegal depending on what follows.

Pratt’s most famous utterance became an operating principle of the Indian school system: “ … all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”

His utterances on the right to privacy and right to dissent were extensively praised.

The word “hate” has become Trump’s signature utterance.