I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.
Silence is as deep as eternity speech a shallow as time.
I've spent too much time giving speeches traveling the world.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech to use any information and technology to purchase and use recreational drugs to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices' to be free of intruders and to privacy.
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now and yet we are still a free society free enough that is to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.
I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother my aunt my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.