Fierce Speeches and Terrorism
by Prejudice is planted in childhood, learnt like table manners and cadences of speech, nurtured through fictions like Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gone With the Wind.
Delivery of speech is always considered a great art throughout the history of mankind. Gift of speech facilitates in weaving a spell over the listeners. A violent speech indoctrinates violence and vice versa. The speakers spare no effort to convince their audiences about their point of view. It happens once in a blue moon that an orator practices in letter and sprit what he preaches. Despite this fact, captivating speeches stamp deep impression on the minds of the audiences. Political speeches are the most effective way to motivate public opinion to emerge triumphant in the elections. A good statesman must be a good orator so that he can motivate and persuade his listeners. Some politicians play to the gallery to deceive their voters to maneuver electioneering. For example, a single fabricated speech of Osama Bin Laden helped George W Bush to win the Presidential elections in 2004.This counterfeit speech generated fear in the American public and they elected Bush for the second term to continue his warmonger policies. Some great scholars used their enthralling speaking power to influence subsequent generations. Socrates was compelled to drink hemlock by his adversaries because they considered that his speeches instill revolutionary ideas in the young cohorts. Religious scholars are invited on religious congregations to deliver speeches. They quote verses from religious scriptures that cast a spell over the listeners having religious inclinations.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Austrian-born German dictator, rightly mentioned in Mein Kampf“All effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas. These stereotyped formulas must be constantly repeated, for “only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.” …”1 The impression of a speech marked on the minds of the audiences fades away due to their engagement in day to day activities. Mature people having capability of sifting truth from falsehood cannot be easily dissuaded through hollow slogans. However, children having unripe mentality can be easily brainwashed through continuous credible discourse. When children enter in the educational institutions they are taught the things they cannot understand that is a first step on the ladder of dogma. It is an open secret that early learning has more lasting impression than the late process of education. Majority of the students enter in the religious institutions during the early phase of life. Therefore, mainstream of these learners are exposed to fierce speeches delivered by blinkered elements engrossed in religious prejudice and sectarianism hate. Therefore, when such students complete their religious education, they develop a bigoted religious outlook. Beryl Bainbridge (1934-), British author and journalist, fittingly said, “Prejudice is planted in childhood, learnt like table manners and cadences of speech, nurtured through fictions like Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gone With the Wind.”2 (1933),
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