On Speeches-Give us the sunshine we deserve....(lets hope we deserve!!)

Lectures have always fascinated me,right from my childhood,even though there are downside like getting carried away by the pseudo-intellectual stuff,getting bored when we cant make sense out of it.Things are presented in various format like books and others,however i find lectures powerful,as we could easily grab a point quickly on the main stuff by listening to a lecture,instead of beating around the bush on reading a book(books are always full of puzzles, enigmas, and allegories,no direct communication on the key points).Reading is always a lonely and non entertaining activity.Humans always wanted to some human relation thats why there are many call centers,also when information is been told by a lecturer it also adds value by the lecturers charisma,also depth of registering to us also strong by the lecturers voice quality,modulation,structure and the quality of content which is broken simpler with more practical examples and words with humor.Ideally a lecture should be progression of events or mood to justify or strike a theme just like a story telling.
The connection from ear to brain is quicker and shorter i believe compared to eyes.Everybody has experience of good or bad lecturing as we all had passed through school/university.The good news about lectures are that,there is some one to listen on what they have learned(from lecture point of view) and there is someone to tell us what we wanted(listener point of view).Non academic speeches like politicians,eulogy,religion or philosophy also are powerful The only subject we cant lecture is Math as there is no information involved in it,only processing, thats make the subject unique.There are many famous lectures by scholars across the globe in various fields like science,humanity,literature,philosophy(guess Martin Luther king jr, is the most famous).Anyways people who cant do,teach,so better be things done then said.But before done it has thought,said(not necessary always!) and then eventually done!

The title of this article is said from the person in the picture(actor Shriya) while lecturing in IIT.Below is a lecture ive enjoyed very much from a famous person(in the most popular medium)who is the most popular till Date.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness — not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world — millions of despairing men, women and little children — victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say — do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed — the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes — men who despise you — enslave you — who regiment your lives — tell you what to do — what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men — machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your heart. You don't hate! Only the unloved hate — the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St. Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of god is within man" — not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power — the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!


Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up, Hannah. The clouds are lifting. The sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world, a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and brutality. Look up, Hannah. The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow — into the light of hope, into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up.

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