--- title: "7 Public Speech Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Public Speech quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Public Speech sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60a/susan-jacoby-10682_anti-intellectualism_the-specific-use-of-folks-as-an-exclusio_84476.jpg" --- > [“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/the-specific-use-of-folks-as-an-exclusionary-and-inclusionary-signal/) [Susan Jacoby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-jacoby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60a/susan-jacoby-10682_anti-intellectualism_the-specific-use-of-folks-as-an-exclusio_84476.jpg) > [Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/obama-has-already-demonstrated-an-extraordinary-ability-to-change-the/) [Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/468/slavoj-i-ek-1738_ability_obama-has-already-demonstrated-an-extrao_558359.jpg) > [Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-henson/anyone-who-has-ever-had-the-feeling-of-being-higher-than-a-kite-after/) [Keith Henson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-henson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/288/keith-henson-18849_attention_anyone-who-has-ever-had-the-feeling-of-b_686839.jpg) > [The secret truth of power of broadcast is that while very effective in restricting limits of acceptable public speech, it was never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zeynep-tufekci/the-secret-truth-of-power-of-broadcast-is-that-while-very-effective/) [Zeynep Tufekci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zeynep-tufekci/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b7/zeynep-tufekci-5405_communication_the-secret-truth-of-power-of-broadcast-i_1198247.jpg) > [Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alissa-quart/civic-poetry-offers-us-a-way-to-think-and-talk-about-issues-that-so/) [Alissa Quart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alissa-quart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/alissa-quart-6857_communication_civic-poetry-offers-us-a-way-to-think-an_2061592.jpg) > [Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/freedom-of-worship-even-of-public-speech-would-become-a-farce-if/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/198/mahatma-gandhi-23_communication_freedom-of-worship-even-of-public-speech_2232651.jpg) > [Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-o-douglas/motion-pictures-are-of-course-a-different-medium-of-expression-than/) [William O. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-o-douglas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bf/william-o-douglas-2931_amendment_motion-pictures-are-of-course-a-differen_2702759.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/public-speech/#itemlist", "name": "Public Speech Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls, is symptomatic of a debasement of public speech inseparable from a more general erosion of American cultural standards. Casual, colloquial language also conveys an implicit denial of the seriousness of whatever issue is being debated: talking about folks going off to war is the equivalent of describing rape victims as girls (unless the victims are, in fact, little girls and not grown women). Look up any important presidential speech in the history of the United States before 1980, and you will find not one patronizing appeal to folks. 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His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the necessity to talk with \"enemies\" like Iran or Hamas, and so on. 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