Ever see a quote out of context and wonder if it was twisted to manipulate the truth?
I just put up a new web site called “Rock the Quote” aimed at solving this problem. It’s a searchable collection of speeches and remarks from Presidents and other famous people in American politics, with an extra feature that lets you share quotes without losing their original context. Each speech lets you select text, highlight it, and share links with people that go directly to the quote surrounded by the original speech text. I’m hoping that people will use this to reduce confusion and disagreement about what somebody meant when discussing politics online.
The URL is http://rockthequote.com.
Your website rockthequote.com is amazing! I’m curious – how do you pick the people/quotes to index?
Lauren
Hi Lauren! So far I’ve simply been curating everything myself, choosing quotes I find interesting and adding them to the index. But I’ll be adding support for user-submitted quotes soon. Thanks for visiting!