Speaker 1

1. “When people show you who they are, believe them.” — Maya Angelou

2. “I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.” — Anais Nin

3. “We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 2

1. “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me ‘I love you.’” — Maya Angelou

2. “We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.” — Anais Nin

3. “I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 3

1. “I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.” — Maya Angelou

2. “Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.” — Anais Nin

3. “Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 4

1. “I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.” — Maya Angelou

2. “Love reduces the complexity of living.” — Anais Nin

3. “To love one's work is a way of loving oneself, and leaves one freer to love other people.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 5

1. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

2. “Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.” — Anais Nin

3. “So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 6

1. “There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” — Maya Angelou

2. “You cannot save people, you can only love them.” — Anais Nin

3. “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” — Susan Sontag

Speaker 1

1. Walmart has more full-time employees -- 2.1 million -- than seven times the population of Iceland.- Insider, 2010

2. More than 36 million U.S. adults cannot read above a third grade level - ProLiteracy, 2020

3. It is estimated that 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. - New York Times, 2014

Speaker 2

1. The average American eats nearly 13 pounds of ice cream per year - U.S Department of Agricultural Economic Research Service, 2017 

2 The fatal injury rate for fishers and related fishing workers is 128.9 deaths per 100,000 - U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2008 

3. 75% of Gen Z-ers don’t consider college the only path to a strong education. - Forbes, 2019

Speaker 3

1. One in seven Americans receive food from a food bank - Feeding America, 2014

2. 84% of Americans say we are angrier than a generation ago. - NPR-IBM Watson Health Poll, 2019

3. 8% of internet users do not use email or search engines - The Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2011

Speaker 4

1. One-third of adults still sleep with a comfort object - Study Finds, 2019

2. Fewer than a quarter of American adults meet U.S guidelines for physical activity - Department of Health and Human Services, 2017

3. Fewer than 2% of NCAA athletes go on to the professional level.  - NCAA, 2018

Speaker 5

1. 40% of Americans can’t name a single freedom protected by the First Amendment. - Freedom Forum Institute, 2018

2. As many as 95% of millennials are "not saving adequately" for retirement. - National Institute on Retirement Security, 2018

3. The average American generates nearly 4.5 pounds of trash each day - U.S Environmental Protection Agency, 2015

Speaker 6

1. Americans read for personal interest for 10 minutes or less per day - Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2020

2. 46% of American adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime. - National Council for Behavioral Health, 2019

3. 60% of nursing home residents never have visitors. - VolunteerGuide, 2013

Speaker 1

1. “Money can’t buy life.” -  Bob Marley, Jamaican musician

2. “I knew it! Born in a goddamned hotel room, and dying in a hotel room.” – Eugene O’Neill, American playwright

3. “The drama’s over. Applaud.” – Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor

Speaker 2

1. “It is stuffy, sticky, and rainy here at present – but forecasts are more favourable.” – J. R. R. Tolkien, postscript of letter to his daughter

2. “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.” -  Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright

3. “I’m still learning.” – Michelangelo, Italian artist and poet

Speaker 3

1. “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and scientist

2. “I am a queen, but I have not the power to move my arms.” – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia

3. “I should have been a concert pianist.” – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist

Speaker 4

1. “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.” – Che Guevara, Argentinian revolutionary, facing his captors

2. “Now is not the time for making new enemies.” – Voltaire, French writer, when asked by a priest to renounce Satan before his death

3. “I’m begging you, let me work!” – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese cartoonist, to a nurse who tried to take away his drawing equipment

Speaker 5

1. “I’m finished. I don’t even trust myself.” – Joseph Stalin

2. “I am about to–or I am going to–die; either expression is correct.” – Dominique Bouhours, French priest and grammarian

3. “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart…” – Anne Frank, German diarist

Speaker 6

1. “At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.” – George Orwell, English author, dying at the age of 46

2. “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!” – Karl Marx, political theorist

3. “All the damn fool things you do in life you pay for.” – Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter

Speaker 1

1. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” - Mahatma Gandhi

2. "We are all part of one another." - Yuri Kochiyama

3. “I SHALL ENDURE! I WILL ENDURE!” – Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales

Speaker 2

1.“"We must be impatient for change. Let us remember that our voice is a precious gift and we must use it." Claudia Flores,

2. “Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” - Cesar Chavez 

3."I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change."​ - Yuri Kochiyama

Speaker 3

1. “The root of oppression is loss of memory” -Paula Gunn Allen

2. “Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphemism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.” - Merle Woo

3. “We often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.” - Lucretia Mott

Speaker 4

1.“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” -John Lewis

2. “Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye - it is very beautiful.” - Kailash Satyarthi

3. Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente

Speaker 5

1. “We build the path as we can, rock by rock.” Hosea Williams 

2. “Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.” Dolores Huerta

3. “In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.” - Bianca Jagger

Speaker 6

1. “Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one’s own situation so as not to be overcome by them.” - Howard Thurman 

2."The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think." — Misty Copeland

3. Sí se puede -Todos