soapbox

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1. (noun) (context/literal) A crate for packing soap, or, by extension, any inexpensive crude platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it, especially when used for speeches.
2. (noun) (context/figurative/idiom) A talk about one's pet topic (or the topic itself,) especially when only tangentially relevant to an ongoing discussion.
3. (verb) To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.