I know this is a bit off topic, but I can't resist.
In the 1969-1970 year at Ithaca College, Rod Serling visited the campus twice, and spoke to the student body. He was officially there to talk to the people in the Radio-TV curriculum about the issues involved in producing The Twilight Zone, but after answering some questions about that, he opened the discussion to any topic at all. Also the forum was open to the entire student body, and believe me, the place was packed on both occassions.
There's a famous Twilight Zone episode called "One for the Angels", in which actor Ed Wynn, keeps Death from taking the life of a dying little girl while making "a pitch for the angels".
Basically, a sales-pitch that is so entertaining that Death is delayed from his appointment.
Here's a link to a summary of that episode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_for_the_Angels
What happened at Ithaca that year was that someone asked Rod Serling how he felt the war in Vietnam was going.
His response was totally spontaneous, and started slowly. "It doesn't seem to be going very well", he observed, and he cited some statistics.
He then went on to say he felt that the human potential was so much better than it was being lived at the time.
And then he went into "a pitch for humanity" that was so eloquent, so awesome, so moving, and so mind-blowing that when he had finished speaking, everyone sat there in dumbstruck silence for about five seconds. It was as if we had heard the voice of Michael the Archangel, pleading humanity's case before God! It was the best performance I've ever seen or heard, bar none.
We gave him a three minute standing ovation.
Sadly, no one appears to have recorded the comments on tape.