B. OPEN Impromptu Event Prompts
1B, 11:30-1:15pm
Speaker 1
- “Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.” – Omaha Tribe
- “The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.” – Wilma Mankiller
- "I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” – Simone Biles
Speaker 2
- “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
- “To me, beauty is inclusion– every size, every color– that’s the world I live in.” -Prabal Gurung
- “You are not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” -Marian Wright Edelman
Speaker 3
- “Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.” -Jesse Jackson
- “Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.” -bell hooks
- “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” - Iyanla Vanzant
Speaker 4
- “A country’s greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice.” -Sarojini Naidu
- "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." -Angela Davis
- "If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future" -Frances Harper
Speaker 5
- "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another." -Toni Morrison
- "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." -Virginia Woolf
- “I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.” -Claudette Colvin
Speaker 6
- “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” -Rosa Parks
- “Freedom is never given; it is won.” -A. Philip Randolph
- “If you recognize that your liberation and mine are bound up together, we can walk together.” -Lila Watson
2B, 1:15-3:30pm
Speaker 1
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” –Amelia Earhart
- “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” –Malala Yousafzai
- “The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention.” -Benazir Bhutto
Speaker 2
- “You can fall, but you can rise also.” – Angelique Kidjo
- “Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.” -Jesse Jackson
- “We are greater than, and greater for, the sum of us.” -Heather McGhee
Speaker 3
- “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
- It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” -Lena Horne
- “Wrong is wrong, no matter who does or says it.” -Malcolm X
Speaker 4
- “I can’t just blend in with every other woman and disappear. But why should I have to?” -Abigail Thorn
- “They made me feel not afraid to be different.” -Madonna
- “I’m telling the world who I am so that I never get the chance to forget.” -Halsey
Speaker 5
- “We’re all born naked, and the rest is drag.” -RuPaul
- “It’s a journey, and we all have a role to play.” -Andrea Jenkins
- “Be the hero or heroine of your own story, of your own life.” -Auli’i Cravalho
Speaker 6
- “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
- “If you don’t fight, nobody is going to fight for you.” -Ceyenne Doroshow
- “Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.” -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Speaker 7
- “A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones.” -Nelson Mandela
- "The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." – W.E.B. Du Bois
- “Democracy is the best revenge.” – Benazir Bhutto
Finals B - 6:00pm
Speaker 1
- “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” - Emma Goldman
- “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains” -Rosa Luxemburg
- “We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth” - Lucretia Mott
Speaker 2
- “Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat or struggle for” - Marian Wright Edelman
- “At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.” -Jesse Jackson
- “Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics” - Jane Addams
Speaker 3
- “We are here, not because we are law-makers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers” -Emmeline Pankhurst
- “Childhood means simplicity” - Kailash Satyarthi
- “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever” - Germaine Greer
Speaker 4
- “We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who would attempt to destroy it” -Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
- “I am a mystery to myself” - Angelina Grimke
- “I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future” Ralph Albernathy
Speaker 5
- “Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return” - Peace Pilgrim
- “I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight” - Pancho Villa
- “What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us” -Dorothea Dix
Speaker 6
- “The focus is what is right before you – to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow” -Kiran Bedi
- “I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done” Bryan Stevenson
- “I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable” -Victoria Woodhull
Speaker 7
- “What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind” - Wendell Phillips
- “No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies” -Daisy Bates
- “Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is facism” -Maajid Nawaz