#speech

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#achieved #anything #drama #feel #feelings

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#after #american #army #classes #dance

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#amendment #beside #does #first #first amendment

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#clean #driven #find #himself #instance

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#choice #free #free speech #fundamental #human

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#demand #freedom #freedom of speech #how #liberties

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#neither #planet #save #songs #speeches

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#been #did #give #good #i

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns. ↗

— Mike Royko

#columns #editorials #good #hollywood #impact

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems