Before he died, he wrote a letter to that South Carolina candidate, apologizing for his horrible statements and begging his forgiveness. He finally realized how much his words must have hurt, so he tried to make it right. They can hit so hard, with the speaker scarcely giving a thought to the damage he is doing until it's too late. You might as well have been slugged with a baseball bat or run over by a bus. And so often it's our best friends or families or fellow believers who are slammed the hardest with our words.
Words can hit harder than a baseball bat.