B. 2 Year Impromptu Event Prompts

IE Finals Set 1 (A/B) 2:45

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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