B. High School Speech Event Prompts
Round 1 - 10:00am
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
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
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
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
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
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