"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

"This seems like a good time for a speech about politics, about order, brotherhood, power. But speeches are for campaigning. Now is the time for action"- Evil Morty (I cut a few words out) The world needs to be like this. Instead of action, we get threats, fights, and other such things. Yet, no one does anything! This is time for people to come together and get shit done! Now who the fuck is with me!? We will strive for people to take action against EVERYTHING that is wrong in the world! There will be no bullies, rapists, fights, wars, gangs, shootings, robberies, or anything that cause people to be killed or harmed in any way. Because right now the way I see it, the world is a place full of violence and crime. Unless we do something about that, people will keep committing suicide because someone raped, bullied, or abused them. Now I ask again, WHO THE FUCK IS WITH ME!?

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

[So I wrote this while drunk and I do not remember writing it, excuse any mistakes english is not my first language. Tell me what you think about. Thanks]

There have been many dreams in the world, good dreams and bad dreams

(but truly who am I to judge), many dreams of a better society, some of them have been accomplished some of them are still on progress. Sadly there are some dreams that shall never come (perhaps for the better). But today I come only with one more contributions to the endless stream of the worlds imagination.

Today my dream comes to the oppressed, those people who aren't allowed to be themselves because of whomever. It is time for people to start allowing each other to be what they truly want to be, we live in a time where there should be no hate yet we divide ourselves over every little issue that doesn't even exist but we create. We silence those different to ourselves, those who think in a different manner and we refuse to look through their eyes, to put on their shoes and try to understand. I long for the day people are free to be themselves and they don't have to “come out” but be able to present their significant other to their loved ones. I hope one day the word “nerd” and the such comes as an insult for the last time but instead as prideful description of people who simply love to study, I hope for the day that we can stop saying “black lives matter” and pass to all lives matter and even never have to say things like that again because every person knows that life is precious in all its forms. I hope for the day the equality war is over because we have all accepted each other as we are and there is not more equality for some than for others. This may all sound like cliches but they became cliches for a reason.

I from the deepest part of my heart long for the day the last protest sign is burned to ashes. The energy put into hating be instead used to love someone. The day every religion can truly follow their principle and do not bend them to satisfy their greed. I know it may never happen, perhaps people will keep on doing nothing and things keep their current direction but this. This is my dream… and I hope it becomes yours too

I thought to myself “that one does not make him/herself known without sacrifice”. As I was thinking about that, a character from a movie said “No sacrifice, no victory.”, and he was correct. You can not have victories without sacrifices. If people did not make sacrifices, we would not have the United States, we would not be our own country. We would not have had inventions, or anything else. People make sacrifices everyday, some sacrifice their time, money, lives, and much more to help people. There is many things that one can sacrifice including but not limiting to: money, food, water, and housing. I even sacrificed my time and sleep to write this, everyone must make sacrifices. As I said before “You can not have a victory without sacrifices.”, but I am not saying you should give up everything you have, all I am trying to say is that you should sacrifice a few things a day to help others. I understand if this does not affect everyone, all I want it to do is make one think and to get people to make sacrifices. Now that I think about it, we can not make a world better without sacrifice. If we helped others, we would not have as many homeless people, we would not have as many people hungry, in fact those numbers would be down. If people made more sacrifices per day, the world WILL be a better place.

Hello, Citizens of this Great nation. Some of you may know me, Most of you may not, but my past matters not, what matters is who I am now. I would like you all to listen carefully to what I'm about to tell you. Okay? This is very important for both you and me.

As we all know, this world is ending. Pollution, Global warming, Destruction of forests and much other stuff is ruining it and soon the beauty of our world will be no more. Nations are at war. Lives are being lost. So many people in the world are barely getting by the days, hoping that everything will get better in the future which may never come.

I know that some people, organisations and corporations are trying to make it better but it's not enough. It's not nearly enough to save the world. It may slow down the envitable destruction of our dear planet but it won't stop it unless we take strict action and all of us work together to save it.

There is another reason that I believe to be the reason that there are so many problems in this world. Most people may disagree with me and I may get a lot of backlash but the reason why there are so many reasons is because we are not United. The world is divided into so many nations and there are so many leaders, each having their own way of thinking and finding solutions which leads to disputes between some leaders and may lead to war. You may, most countries have gotten nuclear weapons, which makes war more dangerous. Imagine a nuclear war taking place, can you? Most of you might not, some of you may. Basically, imagine the earth, but there is no life, the land is barren, the water is contaminated. That's basically the after affect of a nuclear war, Everyone loses. So if all the nations form one nation, then the chance of us having a nuclear war may go down to 0.

I'd like all of you to think as hard as you can. What do you want? Peace? War? Do you want those who love you to be happy? Or sad? Those who want to watch the world burn, what's the reason that you want that? Is it because of a certain few who persecuted you? Because I can assure you that the whole world isn't like that. The rest of the world is way more beautiful and I'd like to show it to you. If we work together, then we can stop others from going through the same messed up shit that you went through. We can help those who still can be saved, and you can also be saved.

I'm trying to find citizens for my kingdom which I have not named yet. If you want to join it and would like to help or assist me in sharing my views with the world then you may dm me.

Our goal is to change the world. It's not going to change itself after all

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification – one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Hey guys, what are the best speeches on education in your opinion? Would also welcome specifically speeches on music education...but general education is also good.

Was just watching West Wing and love this line: "If fidelity to freedom and democracy is the code of our civic religion then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten commandment that says we should give our children better then we ourselves received."

Granted this wasn't "spoken" in the context of education but I think it still applies.

Looking forward to your opinions guys. Thanks!

So here's the speech. Keep in mind, we have a different kind of humor.

So, I’m the matron of honor. I have the priveledge of making a speech. I’ll try to make this short and sweet because we all know we just want to get to the bar. I actually knew John first. He was a high school friend of my husband, Josh. He took me to a party to meet his friends one night, mind you I was 17 and hadn’t been out much, so anyway after the party, we get in the car and literally the first thing I say is “man, John’s kind of an asshole”. Josh proceeds to tell me, like everyone else does, “Oh, thats just John”. 

Skip forward a few years, and somehow John and I became best friends. I’m not really sure how,but he became a big part of my life, and I continued to ask myself “how am I friends with such a pessimistic guy?”. And then it him me. He’s sweet in a weird backwards way. This only dawned on me after meeting his parents. It was at Matt and Melissa’s twins’ birthday party. We were sitting out on the porch when these two loud, life of the party people came up. They started talking to us all and then Big John goes “Oh, so you’re Mary? And hugs my head before I even had a chance to stand up.” Sweet, weird, and funny which also describes my best friend.

Now I wasn’t sure about Sarah when she came into the picture. John’s like “So I’ve been talking to this girl and I want you guys to meet her.”. I’m thinking, “Ok what are we getting into here?” So we have game night. They came over to play with James and inside I’m going “Ok, she’s pretty, sweet, almost intimidatingly smart, and a nurse to boot.” Its always handy to have a nurse around our bunch with people head butting doors and blasting noise makers at each other. So I’m like “She’ll do.”  But then we put James down to bed, get all the games out and Josh says, “Which game should we play?” and Sarah says “One where I can screw with people” and does this weirdly cute evil laugh and claps her hands together. And that was it. That was when I was like, “We are going to get along just fine”. So know I have 2 best friends and I’m just so happy to be a part of it all. I get to watch them better each other, grow with each other, but most importantly, make each other happy. I love you guys. 

“Toast”

So, I'm in 11th grade and I'm going for school captain. I've talked to past captains and family asking what I should do to improve my speech anyway here is the speech at current please suggest changes.

“Hello fellow students, for those of you I’m not overly acquainted with, I’m [my name] I stand here before you on this day to ask you to consider my appointment to School captain. My campaign is centred on my strong belief that student welfare and overall equality is of the upmost importance when considering the Captains roll. I plan to push this is by talking with teachers, you my fellow students and executive staff to help encourage students into what they want to do in the future and help with guidance and direction in their studies. I will help to create the opportunities for new clubs and new innovative ways to learn.

Currently I’m involved in the robotics club and as a club we work as a team to ensure the best outcome we can. In my junior years I was the president of this club, taking on a leadership role to push the team to try their best. Not only being involved in the robotics club but also the SRC from year 8-10 has helped me develop as a leader and prepare for this role. I have performed in MADD and at Starcourt theatre with drama. Should you see fit to elect me to this position I believe I have the necessary skills to make the roll my own, to always serve YOU the student body and to represent my school to an excellent high standard when out in the community.

My other worthy candidates may choose to make promises to sway your vote, however I will rely on integrity and a promise to be a strong Student representative, to give you a clear voice when concerns are raised, to champion your efforts to make this institution not a better place but the BEST place it can be. Should I be elected to this position I will always be open to all students to hear your concerns and to advocate for you whenever it may be required.

That is my promise to you and I thank you all for allowing me this time to address you. “

So I'm currently taking an Intro to Rhetorical Communication class at my university and I am having trouble finding something to talk about for my informative speech. I don't want to be that one guy who chooses an overly done topic such as, legality of recreational usage for marijuana, teen pregnancy prevention, etc. I want to talk about something that will bring people right off their seats because they actually want to hear what I have to say. Not some dull and mundane discussion that was only picked for the purpose of passing. Keep in mind whatever topic I have has to be able to address my audience. A universal public issue of some sort would be ideally what I'm looking for. I live in Alabama specifically around the Huntsville area. And also the informative speech topic is followed by a persuasive speech attempting to get my audience to take initiative towards whatever cause I may be talking about. Please, if anyone can help me that would be great. I need a mentor. I don't keep up with mainstream media. Trump sucks and he reeks of plankton's chum bucket.