To find an example of a speech that can risk it all, you must look at the recent events in Bangladesh. In the first week of July, the court declared the ruling on the continuation of the 56% quota.
Students protested against the quota system back in 2018. Then the existing prime minister declared the withdrawal of the quota system. Which was not what the students wanted, they wanted reform of quota not withdrawal.
The speech of the then prime minister forced the biggest stakeholders of the quota system, the family of the freedom fighters to appeal at the court for quota. The outcome of that declaration came in July. Thus the protest began.
It was going non-violent. No clashes and no vandalism were happening. The students wanted the prime minister to listen to what they had to say. They were waiting for her to return from China and give a statement, Which she did, but alas! That statement burnt the country down and she had to flee to India!
What was in the speech? She generalized all of the students who did not have quotas as the opposition to the freedom fight we endured in 1971 and got our independence from Pakistan. It was the spark in the gunpowder, which spread quickly.
Even then, all could have been resolved non-violently. Yet some of the ministers gave some speeches that instructed the student organization of the government to attack the general students. On the first day, the common students were beaten. But when on the second day, the students fought back, the government sent the police against them. They shoot at the students. Which backfired heavily. According to the official reports published in the papers, 250+ people have died. But the actual numbers can be far more than that. Bangladesh was cut off from the world by disabling the internet for five days. They thought it would steady the protest. But they might not confess all the crimes they have committed for the last 15 years, but the people did not. For which, the student protest turned into a mass uprising.
The final outcome was the fall of the government. If only she could have checked her mouth! She would not have to risk it all!
5 August / 36 July 2024 is the birth of Bangladesh 2.0. Where there will be no discrimination, no corruption. All of us will have to rebuild the country.