Persuasive Speech Topics

Persuasive speech topics includes the keywords and links to help you research the topic and build your persuasive speech and public speaking.

This is a work in progress list of persuasive speech topics with links and keywords to help research your public speech. In each topic, the keyword to search is in red.

For some, you will find comments to give you ideas on how to proceed with the topics for persuasive speech.

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With some topics below, there is only one side. This is because the other side is already an accepted practice.

Government and Law Persuasive Speech Topics

Health Reforms will help / hurt more people than we realize. Health reform, health reform debate

The FTC guides will help / hinder businesses and consumers. FTC Guides

The Asbestos Abatement Laws will help / hurt consumers (cost benefit vs risk) asbestos abatement

Animals should / should not have rights (more than current rights).

Government assistance should only be given to American Citizens? government assistance, citizens, non-citizens

Plea bargaining should be eliminated? against plea bargaining

America is not world's police force definition of police action

Income taxation should be eliminated

The Constitution should be rewritten and modernized

Internet Spamming should (or should not) be a capital offense

Junk mail should/ should not be banned second class mail

Note: Second class mail keeps regular mail prices down, keep advertisers, artist, printers and paper distributors to name a few in business. Eliminate second class mail and you eliminate a number of jobs and postal rates will continue to rise even more.

Governments should / should not censor material on the world wide web.

American workers should / should not be guaranteed a three-day weekend by law

American workers should automatically get three weeks paid vacation

American workers should / should not get more paid vacation time job vacation times, vacation policies, vacation policies around the world

Assault weapons should / should not be out-lawed

Owning firearms should / should not require registration with the government

A two-week waiting period should / should not be required for purchasing firearms

A psych evaluation should / should not be required of anyone purchasing a firearm.

A mandatory two-week cooling off time should / should not be required for anyone who purchases a firearm.

Weapons that can be converted into assault or automatic weapons should / should not be out-lawed

Juveniles should / should not be sentenced as adults? juvenile sentencing

Parents should / should not be held legally responsible for the actions of their children

Young people should / should not be governed by curfews to reduce crime

Mothers should / should not be required to stay at home to rear their children

One of the birth parents should / should not be required to rear their children

Three strike laws are / are not effective three strike laws

Mexican border fences are / are not effective Mexican border fence

The death penalty for murderers should / should not be abolished

The death penalty should / should not be imposed on juveniles

The death penalty should / should not be imposed on the guilty who are mentally ill

The death penalty should / should not be imposed on the mentally challenged

The death penalty should / should not be imposed on those claiming innocence by reason of insanity or mental defect

Convicted drug dealers should / should not receive the death penalty

Smoking in public should / should not be banned

The sale of human organs should / should not be legalized

State and local governments should not operate lotteries and gambling casinos

Gambling should / should not be allowed

Gambling should / should not be more tightly regulated

Gambling should / should not be outlawed

The U.S. should / should not remain in the United Nations

Government should / should not be sending people into space

Governments should / should not negotiate with terrorists

Terrorism can / cannot be justified

Negative advertising in political campaigns should / should not be banned

Immigrations into the U.S. should / should not be restricted
Note: Unless your a descendant of a native American, your family immigrated here.

Churches should / should not pay taxes

Federal funding for the arts should (or should not) be eliminated

The tax system is / is not unfair to middle-class and lower-income Americans

The Estate Tax should /should not be eliminated

The government should / should not use budget surplus to cut taxes

Funding for the arts should / should not be provided by tax dollars.

The US should / should not adopt a flat tax system.

The Presidency should / should not be limited to a single six-year term

Billboards should / should not be outlawed on interstate highways

Business should / should not be allowed to make unsolicited telephone calls to citizens This is how some make their living. Are arguing they should be put out of their jobs? They should get different employment?

Police should / should not be allowed to set up roadblocks to isolate and arrest impaired drivers

People should / should not have to wear seat-belts

Automobile drivers licenses should / should not include a new driver’s test every three years

Cell phone use in cars should / should not be banned

Cellular phones should / should not be legal to use while driving

Psychologists / psychiatrists should / should not testify on behalf of the not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity plea

All Americans should / should not be covered by a national health insurance program

There should / should not be a federally mandated basic health insurance program

Taxpayers should pay for therapy sessions for victims of violent crimes

Millionaires should / should not get tax loop holes

Athletes should / should not be allowed to use steroids

Steroids and drugs like dehydroepiandrosterone should /should not be legal for athletes (used in supplements)

Lawmakers need to pass tougher legislation on stalking

Bicycle riders should be required by law to wear helmets

Motorcycle riders should be required by law to wear helmets

Scientific experimentation on animals should / should not be outlawed

Everyone over 18 should have been given $20,000 and required to pay off a loan or buy a new car as part of the bail out

All home owners should / should not be required to use solar power within the next 10 years.

All businesses should / should not be required to have a green certification within the next 10 years

Education Persuasive Speech Topics

All students should (or should not) be required to learn a foreign language

College athletes should / should not meet the academic requirements to qualify

College athletes should/ should not be allowed to be paid for playing
paying college athletes

Performance enhancing drugs in sports should / should not be legalized for college students

Sex education should / should not be required course in all schools

Elementary school education should / should not be required to learn a foreign language

Sex education should / should not be taught in schools

Sex education should / should not be entirely taught by parents

States should / should not fund schools run by religious groups

Schools should / should not require their students to wear a school uniform

Universities should / should not have the authority to ban hate speech

College athletes should / should not be required to meet minimum grade point averages in order to be able to participate in their sport

Schools should / should not have mandatory drug-tests

Competency exams should be required in order to graduate from high schools

Children and teens should get education on the dangers of huffing (sniffing solvents and aerosols)
PubMed.org and type the keywords from above sentence

Should schools be allowed to teach creation along with evolution

Teachers should / should not have pay based on performance

Education on sex should /should not be required in 6th grade classes

All students should / should not be required to pass a competency exam before being passed from elementary school to junior high school

All students should / should not be required to pass a competency exam before being passed from junior high school to high school

Energy Persuasive Speech Topics

Solar power is (or is not) a viable alternate energy source

HHO (Browns Gas, Yules Browns Gas, Water Hybrid Cars) does / does not work water hybrid, run your car on water

Health Care Persuasive Speech Topics

Obama Care / The Affordable Health Care Act Should be Repealed (or is not sustainable, is unfair)

Online pharmacies are / are not a good idea because people can buy medicines with out a doctors advice

Nurses are / are not being worked too hard Research Nursing Working Conditions

Needle exchanges are / are not a good idea Research needle exchanges

Animals should / should not be used for scientific experimentation

Reiki is / is not a legitimate form of treatment

Complimentary alternative health care should / should not be available from doctors and hospitals

Health care professionals should (or should not) have annual infectious disease testing

Heroin should / should not be legal as a pain reliever for terminally ill patients

Acupuncture is / is not a valid medical technique

Before cosmetic surgery, patients should have required education of the risks

Chronic mental patients should / should not be housed in "halfway houses" or residences in the community /remote mental hospitals

Children and teens should get educated on the dangers of huffing (sniffing solvents and aerosols)

Everyone should have the right to receive health care with out blood transfusions (bloodless medicine and surgery advance transfusion practice, blood conservation techniques, NoBlood.org

Heredity does / does not influence on personality development more than environment

Experimentation on animals to develop medications should / should not be outlawed

The right to donate your organs or not should not pass to your family on your death
Note: at your death, your nurse or attending physician has to make a call and if viable, your family has to make the decision of giving your organs away or not, the choice is no longer yours.

POLST (Physician's Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) should / should not be legal in all states (http://www.ohsu.edu/polst/)

People should be required to get education on the dangers of overexposure to the sun

Dogs and cats that are not being used for breeding should be neutered or spayed

CPR and first aid techniques should be required skills of everyone

Alternative remedies for are just as or more effective than traditional medicine for colds

Alternative health care is better / the same / less effective as traditional medicine

Cinnamon does / does not lower cholesterol. Studies swing both ways. Which is right?

Health care professionals should / should not be required by law to be tested every two years for HIV infections and AIDS along with TB

Employment Persuasive Speech Topics

The minimum wage should / should not be waived for adolescent and teens

The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Used in Employment is Worthless

Other Persuasive Speech Topics

The poverty line is / is no longer accurate The Poverty Line. What is it?

Porn should be banned

Note: Where do pedophiles get their start? How do they perpetuate their sickness. Although some make the art argument, when someone feeds their mind on this they become unable to look at people as people rather than sexual objects.

The suggested tip at a restaurant should be printed on the bill

Beauty pageants do / do not debase women

IQ tests are / are not valid measures of human intelligence

Airline Mergers: Should be trusted / should be busted Airline Mergers

MLM, Multi-Level Marketing, Network Marketing are / are not pyramid schemes.

MLM, Multi-Level Marketing, Network Marketing is / is not a legitimate form of marketing

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