soapbox orator

Edelman was a middle-aged, Russian-born, communist-inclined soapbox orator.

Both Farmer and Marshall got interested in the Rosenbergs through correspondence with a professional soapbox orator and left-wing pamphleteer, Irwin Edelman of Los Angeles.

Strolling with some friends one evening a few years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle.

Of the two, Premier Wang is by far the better educated by Western standards, but compared to President Lin, he makes the impression of a boy soapbox orator.

In particular, whereas the architecture of real space limits the audience of a pamphleteer or soapbox orator to people within the speaker's immediate vicinity, the Internet renders the geography of speaker and listener irrelevant: Through the use of chat rooms, any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox.