Stump speech (politics) BOMFOG. An example is provided by the Washington Post on a 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama speech, complete with time line, segmentation and videos. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/02/26/GR2008022600417.html. Stump speech (politics) A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a politician running for office. Typically a candidate who schedules many appearances prepares a short standardized stump speech that is repeated verbatim to each audience, before opening to questions. The term derives from the early American custom in which candidates campaigned from town to town and stood upon a sawed off tree stump to deliver their speech. In presidential campaigns in the
Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival than 2,000 people were arrested nationwide. Protesters stopped traffic and petitioned state legislatives. and performed more acts of direct action. Rev. Barber has stated, “We have these mythologies about the civil rights movement, about what it took to bring about change in America, but none of that happened overnight. You need to have a long-term vision. This right here, this is only our foundation.” The new movement aims to address the issues that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke against in his original campaign. Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival Poor People's Campaign: A National Call