B. OPEN Impromptu Event Prompts

1B, 11:30-1:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.” – Omaha Tribe  
    2. “The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.” – Wilma Mankiller
    3. "I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” – Simone Biles
  2. Speaker 2


    1. “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” - Dorothy Height
    2. “To me, beauty is inclusion– every size, every color– that’s the world I live in.” -Prabal Gurung
    3. “You are not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” -Marian Wright Edelman

     

     

  3. Speaker 3


    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
  4. Speaker 4


    1. “A country’s greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice.” -Sarojini Naidu
    2. "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." -Angela Davis
    3. "If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future" -Frances Harper
  5. Speaker 5


    1. "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another." -Toni Morrison
    2. "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." -Virginia Woolf
    3. “I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.” -Claudette Colvin
  6. Speaker 6


    1. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” -Rosa Parks
    2. “Freedom is never given; it is won.” -A. Philip Randolph
    3. “If you recognize that your liberation and mine are bound up together, we can walk together.” -Lila Watson

2B, 1:15-3:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” –Amelia Earhart
    2. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” –Malala Yousafzai
    3. “The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention.” -Benazir Bhutto

     

     

  2. Speaker 2


    1. “You can fall, but you can rise also.” – Angelique Kidjo 
    2. “Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.” -Jesse Jackson
    3. “We are greater than, and greater for, the sum of us.” -Heather McGhee
  3. Speaker 3


    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
  4. Speaker 4


    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
  5. Speaker 5


    1. “We’re all born naked, and the rest is drag.” -RuPaul
    2.  “It’s a journey, and we all have a role to play.” -Andrea Jenkins
    3.  “Be the hero or heroine of your own story, of your own life.” -Auli’i Cravalho
  6. Speaker 6


    1.  “There is no pressure to figure out your entire personality today or tomorrow or next year. Figure out what you need to do right now.” -Bob the Drag Queen
    2.  “If you don’t fight, nobody is going to fight for you.” -Ceyenne Doroshow
    3.  “Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.” -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  7. Speaker 7


    1. “A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones.” -Nelson Mandela
    2. "The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." – W.E.B. Du Bois
    3. “Democracy is the best revenge.” – Benazir Bhutto

Finals B - 6:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” - Emma Goldman
    2. “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains” -Rosa Luxemburg
    3. “We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth” - Lucretia Mott
  2. Speaker 2


    1. “Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat or struggle for” - Marian Wright Edelman
    2. At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.” -Jesse Jackson
    3. “Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics” - Jane Addams
  3. Speaker 3


    1. “We are here, not because we are law-makers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers” -Emmeline Pankhurst
    2. “Childhood means simplicity” - Kailash Satyarthi
    3. “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever” - Germaine Greer
  4. Speaker 4


    1. “We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who would attempt to destroy it” -Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
    2. “I am a mystery to myself” - Angelina Grimke
    3. “I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future” Ralph Albernathy
  5. Speaker 5


    1. “Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return” - Peace Pilgrim
    2. “I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight” - Pancho Villa
    3. “What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us” -Dorothea Dix
  6. Speaker 6


    1. “The focus is what is right before you – to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow” -Kiran Bedi
    2. “I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done” Bryan Stevenson
    3. “I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable” -Victoria Woodhull
  7. Speaker 7


    1. “What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind” - Wendell Phillips
    2. “No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies” -Daisy Bates
    3. “Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is facism” -Maajid Nawaz