B. High School Speech Event Prompts

Round 1 - 10:00am

  1. Speaker 4


    Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

    Some people are worth melting for

    Strike me down in anger and I’ll always be with you. Just like your father. --Luke Skywalker, Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

  2. Speaker 6


    Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

    When I look at you, I can feel it. And I, I look at you and…I'm home --Finding Nemo

    You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Round 2 - 11:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so. --Keith Ellison

    When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. --Bayard Rustin

    “Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.” --— Calvin Coolidge

  2. Speaker 4


    Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. --Jack Welch

    We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. --Albert Einstein

    "Cowards die many times before their deaths." --— Julius Caesar

Round 3 - 1:15pm

  1. Speaker 6


    “Society doesn’t have values. People have values.” --— Milton Friedman

    I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay. --Bob Dylan

    It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. --Maslow

  2. Speaker 7


    Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. --George Washington

    Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. --Aldous Huxley

    To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. --Barbara Bush