B. 2 Year Impromptu Event Prompts

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

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