Speaker 1

- “A man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life.” (Edgar Lee Masters)

- “Bureaucracy, the role of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.” (Mary McCarthy)

- “Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.” (Carrie Chapman Catt)

Speaker 2

- “Communicators do not persuade individuals – in effect, individuals persuade themselves.” Sarah Trenholm)

- “Art….is killed outright by a sermon.” (Agnes Repplier)

- “I think my biggest problem is being young and beautiful.” (Harvey Fierstein)

Speaker 3

- “One of the primary functions of communication is the reduction of uncertainty.” (Sarah Trenholm)

- “The tongue may be an unruly member – but silence poisons the soul.” (Edgar Lee Masters)

- “The saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness.” (Comtesse Catherine de Gasparin)

Speaker 4

- “We can influence others by controlling their rewards and punishments.”  (Sarah Trenholm)

- “There’s one sure way of telling when politicians aren’t telling the truth – their lips move.”  (Felicity Kendal)

- “Sometimes a man’s life turns into a cancer from being continually bruised.”  (Edgar Lee Masters)

Speaker 5

- “Our attempts to construct our selves are seldom done in isolation.”  (Sarah Trenholm)

- “A thing of beauty is a joy ‘till sunrise.”  (Harvey Fierstein)

-  “Strong and convincing art has never risen from theories.”  (Mary Wigman)

Speaker 6

- “How can you ever get any respect from anyone if you won’t be yourself?”  (Harvey Fierstein)

- “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”  (Ingrid Bergman)

- “Culture provides us with an identity and thus constrains our interactions.”  (Sarah Trenholm)

Speaker 1

At some point we all have to choose, between what the world wants you to be, and who you are. - Natasha Romanoff

The world is upside down. People need something to get behind. They need the symbol. - Bucky Barnes

I understand that the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it. – Nick Fury

Speaker 2

You never know. You hope for the best and make do with what you get. - Nick Fury

The hardest choices require the strongest wills. - Thanos

Look, it’s me, I’m here, deal with it. Let’s move on. – James Rhodes

Speaker 3

It’s not about saving our world. It’s about saving theirs. – Hank Pym

Well, I don’t judge people on their worst mistakes. – Natasha Romanoff

Just because something works, doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. – Shuri

Speaker 4

Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships, because they knew death was better than bondage. - Erik Killmonger

Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short. - Dr. Strange

The world has changed and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best, and sometimes the best that we can do is to start over. - Peggy Carter

Speaker 5

I can’t control their fear, only my own. – Wanda Maximoff

You know, I keep telling everybody they should move on and grow. Some do. But not us. - Steve Rogers

You’re ancestors called it magic, and you call it science. - Thor

Speaker 6

He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy. – Yondu

Vengeance has consumed you. It’s consuming them. I’m done letting it consume me. – T’Challa

I have nothing to prove to you. – Carol Danvers

Speaker 1

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. — Malcolm X

Prejudices are the props of civilization. — André Gide

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. — Herbert Spencer

Speaker 2

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. — Indira Gandhi

We don’t want to see Targets burning. We want to see the system that sets up for systemic racism burned to the ground. — Killer Mike

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell

Speaker 3

It is white people’s responsibility to be less fragile. — Robin DiAngelo

Protest is not the end of progress, it is the beginning … — Lizzo

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James Baldwin

Speaker 4

Racism is not getting worse, it’s getting filmed. — Will Smith

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Moshe Dayan

The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. — Ijeoma Oluo

Speaker 5

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person’s feeling of self worth, even an opponent’s. — Bernard Haring

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. — Eugene Ionesco

If now isn’t a good time for the truth, I don’t see when we’ll get to it. — Nikki Giovanni

Speaker 6

Defining freedom cannot amount to simply substituting it with inclusion. — Monique Morris

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights. - Irene Khan

We’ve come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can’t imagine Dr. King watching the Real Housewives or Jersey Shore. — Samuel L. Jackson

Speaker 7

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. — Coretta Scott King

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. - Audre Lorde

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. - Desmond Tutu