Nick Taupier
GEO
Persuasive Speech on Truth

If you say no to your boss, or your girlfriend or boyfriend, or your mother, when it needs to be said, then you transform yourself into someone who can say no. If you say yes when no needs to be said, however, you transform yourself into someone who can only say yes, even when it’s very clearly time to say no.

If you ever have wondered why ordinary and decent people end up doing terrible things like the camp guards at Auschwitz, you have your answer. By the time no seriously needed to be said, there was no one left capable of saying it.

One way of conceptualizing yourself is that you're one speck of dust among 7 billion. And when you think that way you might say, well what difference does it …show more content…
You know 1,000 people (you'll know more than that over the course of your life but for the sake of argument lets say 1,000 people), every one of the those thousand people knows 1,000 people. That means you're one person away from a million people and you're two persons away from a billion.

So Don’t underestimate the power of your speech. Western culture was predicated on the idea of the logos and that logos is the sacred element of our culture, and what does that mean, it means that your capacity for speech is divine. It's the best way to pull order and civility out from chaos and carnage.

Don't underestimate the power of truth, there's nothing more …show more content…
Now you might have to pay a price for that but that's fine you're going to pay a price for every single thing you do and everything you don't do, you don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which price your going to pay for, that's it.

So if you're going to stand up for something, stand up for your truth! It'll shape you, because people will respond and object and tell you why you're a fool and a biased moron and why youre ignorant and if you actually listen to them, you'll be just less like that the next time time you say something.

It is not safe to speak, and it never will be, but the thing you have to keep in mind is that it's even less safe not to speak .

Be afraid, but be afraid of the right thing. And the right thing you should be afraid of is not saying what you think because that's the same as not being. And here you are suffering away from life's tragedy and hardships, you might as well be at the same time.

Mark twain said something like - one of the advantages of telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said.

Its something like Say what you think carefully, pay attention to your