Speech Quotes - Page 31

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his speech based on this problem being a moral issue until Negroes exploded in Birmingham.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.

I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.