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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaukrie" data-source="post: 157159" data-attributes="member: 2057">Amazing, I was just about to work on my 10th Toastmasters speech, the one where you pull it all together, everything you've learned, but I thought I'd check the boards first.My topic, Americans are greedy and only care about themselves, and we all need to try to be nicer.  (my speech says it nicer than that)  The idea, we need to do things, not not do things.then, i find this thread, and I think cool, this is my topic.  thanks for inspiring me to go ahead with my topic.  BTW, here is a quote from a speech by Elie Wiesel, at a White House Symposium, speaks on the perils of indifference, Washington, D.C, April 12, 1999."So much violence, so much indifference.What is indifference?  Etymologically, the word means "no difference."  A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil.What are its courses and inescapable consequences?  Is it a philosophy?  Is there a philosophy of indifference conceivable?  Can one possibly view indifference as a virtue?  Is it necessary at times to practice it simply to keep one s sanity, live normally, enjoy a fine meal and a glass of wine, as the world around us experiences harrowing upheavals?Of course, indifference can be tempting--more than that, seductive.  It is so much easier to look away from victims.  It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes.  It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person s pain and despair.  Yet, for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence.  And, therefore, their lives are meaningless.  Their hidden or even visible anguish is of no interest.  Indifference reduces the other to an abstraction."Think about it next time you don't act.</blockquote>

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