Health topics make great evocative speeches because they sometimes combine religion and politics. Topics about healthy living, patient care and the proposed government-run health care system all make great speeches. Healthy living topics can focus on losing weight, going vegan or vegetarian and adapting to the "green" lifestyle. Speakers can talk about why they chose to make personal changes and note if they did so because of political or social reasons. Topics on patient care can address physician-assisted suicide, stem cell research and abortion. Topics about the proposed government-run system can come from both sides of the argument and talk about issues such as funding the program and dealing with insurance companies.
Much like health, social issues create the same type of evocative response because many topics intertwine with religion and politics. The war on drugs, poverty and capital punishment can all make great speech topics. A speech about the war on drugs can address punishing offenders, passing tougher laws and giving more money to fight the problem. Poverty-related speeches can center on using nonprofits to help people and advocating for better government help. Those arguing for or against capital punishment can use an example of someone vindicated because of DNA evidence or talk about family members who are crime victims.
Education topics can focus on those pushing for reforms in the system and those fighting for more government control. Those fighting for reforms can talk about school choice, school vouchers, online education, charter schools and homeschooling as alternatives to traditional education. Those fighting for more government control can talk about paying teachers more money, allocating more money for school systems, spending more on each child and giving a free college education for those who qualify. Speakers who talk about their personal experience and how something made their education better make a speech more passionate.
Evocative speeches about the economy can focus on taxes and saving money. Tax topics allow speakers to make a persuasive argument about lowering taxes, making the middle class pay more/less taxes, making the wealthy pay more/less taxes, changing the tax code and increasing or decreasing sales tax or taxes on cigarettes and alcohol. Speeches about saving money can address shopping consignment, buying in bulk, using coupons and creating a family budget. People who can talk about how they went from "spenders to savers" can use their experience and expertise to make their point.