Speaker 1

1. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer” -Harriet Tubman

2. “We’re all water from different rivers, that’s why it’s so easy to meet; we’re all water in this vast, vast ocean, someday we’ll evaporate together.” –Yoko Ono

3. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” -Audre Lorde

Speaker 2

1. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”-Alice Walker

2. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. — Dalai Lama

3. “Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.” -Louise Erdrich

Speaker 3

1. “Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.” -Assata Shakur

2. “I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that.” -Anita Hill

3. “We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.” -Maxine Hong Kingston

Speaker 4

1. “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” -Maya Angelou

2. “There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” -Arundhati Roy 

3. “There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.” -Wangari Maathai

Speaker 5

1. “Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.” -Gabriela Mistral

2. “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” - Coretta Scott King

3. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” -Frida Kahlo

Speaker 6

1. “Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.” -Jesse Jackson

2. “Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.” -bell hooks

3. “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” - Iyanla Vanzant

Speaker 7

1. “You can fall, but you can rise also.” – Angelique Kidjo 

2. “To me, beauty is inclusion– every size, every color– that’s the world I live in.” -Prabal Gurung

3. “We are greater than, and greater for, the sum of us.” -Heather McGhee

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” -Audre Lorde

2. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” –Malala Yousafzai

3. “The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.” -Abhijit Naskar

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. “You may not control all events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -Maya Angelou

2. “We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3. "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another." -Toni Morrison

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. “Treating different things the same can generate as much inequality as treating the same things differently.” -Kimberlé Crenshaw

2. “I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.” -Edward Enninful 

3. “It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.” -Criss Jami 

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” -Martin Luther King Jr.

2. “Let’s stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another.” -Con Miguel Ruiz 

3. “If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all” -James Baldwin

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” -Marsha P. Johnson

2. “We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.” -George Takei

3. “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.” -Chris Colfer

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. “I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.” -Brittney Griner

2. “Have a vision. Be demanding.” -Colin Powell

3. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” -Mary McLeod Bethune

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. “We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.” -Sylvia Rivera

2. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” -Lena Horne

3. “Wrong is wrong, no matter who does or says it.” -Malcolm X

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. “You can’t be what you can’t see.” -Marian Wright Edelman

2. “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.” -Jason Collins

3. “You are not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” -Marian Wright Edelman

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. “What I am in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.” -Miley Cyrus

2. “I realize that just living my truth of what I am, there’s one less person to fight me in my own head.” -Raven-Symone

3. “I’ve learned that change is possible and I’ve learned that the only things that are truly impossible are the things we don’t try.” Sarah McBride

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. “I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and then the world, is a revolutionary act.” -Janet Mock

2. “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.” -Elliot Page

3. “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” -Alice Walker

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. “I do realize the importance of having the bravery to live as who you are and I feel like a lot of people don’t have that bravery.” -Michelle Rodriguez

2. “Never stop believing in yourself. You had it all along.” -Karamo Brown

3. “It’s your journey, do it the way you wanna do it” -Tan France

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. “I want people to fall in love with themselves and be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up.” -Jonathan Van Ness

2. “I am making the conscious decision to present myself the way I want to today.” -Hunter Schafer

3. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” -Maya Angelou

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. “Life, at last, begins to make sense when you are open and honest.” -Ian McKellen

2. “Our power is in our ability to make things unworkable.” -Bayard Rustin

3. “I encourage other people to be unapologetic about themselves as well.” -Lilly Singh

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. “I can’t just blend in with every other woman and disappear. But why should I have to?” -Abigail Thorn

2. “They made me feel not afraid to be different.” -Madonna

3. “I’m telling the world who I am so that I never get the chance to forget.” -Halsey