On the whole speech is violence thing:

Speech IS often a form of violence or aggression. Them are fightin' words. We often use speech as a form of violence and oppression/suppression because we are not free to use actual violence.

Words are used with the intention to harm. While you may not bleed on the outside and no bones were broken, you were harmed--and that harm can be far more reaching and difficult to overcome than bruises or cuts or broken bones. I see the harm that words do every day and this has become ever more prevalent in the age of social media.

And that harm can become pervasive if others take up the idea and act upon the words in various ways... especially if they get government support.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me is a foolish children's rhyme, without actual foundation in reality.

Words are often the harbinger and signal for physical violence.