B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 10:45 AM
Speaker 1
“No matter what you are going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel” - Demi Lovato (they/them)
“You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.” - Kesha (she/her)
Speaker 2
“Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.” - Marlee Matlin (she/her)
“You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.” - Amy Poehler (she/her)
Speaker 3
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” - Madonna (she/her)
“I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential.” - Nicki Minaj (she/her)
Speaker 4
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”- Mae Jemison (she/her)
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” - Dr. Henry Link (he/him)
Speaker 5
“I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.” - Marsha P. Johnson (she/her)
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can” - Frida Kahlo (she/her)
Speaker 6
“That's what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are, you find others like you.” - Chaz Bono (he/him)
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die” - Steve Biko (he/him)
Speaker 7
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin (he/him)
“Better not to belong at all than belong in a cage” - Rivers Solomon (they/them)
Round 2 - 12:00 PM
Speaker 1
“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” – Navajo (nɑ·və·həʊ) proverb
“Who is curious gets old quickly." – Hungarian (huhng·geh·ree·uhn) proverb
Speaker 2
“You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.” – Inuit (i·nyoo·uht) proverb
"You can give a piece of advice, but not good luck along with it." – Norwegian (nor·wee·jun) proverb
Speaker 3
"Speaking without thought is like shooting without taking aim." – Spanish (spae·nuhsh) proverb
“The bush in which you hide has eyes.” – Kenyan (keh·nyn) Proverb
Speaker 4
"The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one, in turn, looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth." – Akan (aa·kaan) proverb
"When you’re thirsty it’s too late to think about digging a well." – Japanese (ja·puh·neez) proverb
Speaker 5
"Once I had strength but no wisdom; now I have wisdom but no strength.” – Persian (pur·zhn) proverb
"They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing." – Hindu (hind·doo) proverb
Speaker 6
“Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence” – Arabic (eh·ruh·buhk) proverb
“Pain is certain, suffering is optional” – Buddhist (boo·duhst) proverb
Speaker 7
“Fear not death for your hour of doom is set and none may escape it” – Norse (nors) proverb
“Words should be weighed, not counted” – Yiddish (yi·duhsh) Proverb
Finals - 3:45 PM
Speaker 1
“The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.” - Bhagat Singh (he/him)
“We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.” - Fred Hampton (he/him)
Speaker 2
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” - Rosa Luxemburg (she/her)
“Please drive your tank slowly, woke people are trying to sleep.” - Veselekov (he/him)
Speaker 3
“It’s not security measures, it’s not prisons in Madrid and walls in Africa that will solve the problem.” - Alpha Oumar Konare (he/him)
“I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic” - Greta Thunberg (she/her)
Speaker 4
“The crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood” - John Brown (he/him)
“Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women” - Huda Sha’arawi (she/her)
Speaker 5
“If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow” - Ilhan Omar (she/her)
“I believe in people power. And the power is in us, not the leaders.” - Patience Nabukalu (she/her)
Speaker 6
“We can’t really do that if the foundation of the system that we have is one that is based on competition and individualism and burning oneself out. We have to switch that foundation.” - Xiye Bastida (she/her)
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil” - Hannah Arendt (she/her)
Speaker 7
“The real question is whether you have the political will to do the right thing, to wield the right words and to follow it up with long overdue action.” - Brianna Fruean (she/her)
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have” - James Baldwin (he/him)