Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. Why should everything that happens be the entire world's business? ― Philip Wyeth

2. I don't want you to be safe ideologically, I don't want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong. That's different. -Van Jones

3. I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. ― Oscar Wilde

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. It isn’t hate to speak the truth. -J.K. Rowling

2. Cancel that bitch. I’ll buy another one. -New Jack City

3. People attempt to expunge anyone with whom they do not perfectly agree, rather than remain focused on those who profit from discrimination and injustice. -Loretta Ross

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. This idea of purity, and you’re never compromised, and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly. -Barack Obama

2. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. -Open letter in Harper’s Magazine

3. The concept of being canceled is not new to black culture, a survival skill as old as the Southern black use of the boycott. -Anita Charity Hudley

Speaker 4

1. Speaker 4

   1. The United States of America needs free speech. We need free expression. And all of us, from all perspectives, need the courage to speak up and defend it. -Mitch McConnell

   2. Stated clearly, an idea may cancel itself out. -Mason Cooley

   3. Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost. ― Neil Gaiman

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. -Barack Obama

2. Most complaining about cancel culture is insincere griping meant to convey "liberals are bad." -Ken White

3. This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. ―Euripides

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. -Salman Rushdie

2. You cannot cancel a culture that love its heroes. -Matt Gaetz

3. What people do when they invoke dog whistles like ‘cancel culture’ and ‘culture wars,’is illustrate their discomfort with the kinds of people who now have a voice and their audacity to direct it towards figures with more visibility and power. -Danielle Butler 

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. It’s so important to remember that we can be good people AND we can make mistakes. -Barack Obama

2. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

3. It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. ― Criss Jami

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.– Oprah Winfrey

2. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. - Audre Lorde

3. It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. – W.C. Fields

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.- Alice Walker

2. Radical self-love is treating yourself the way you would treat your very best, most treasured friend. ― Gala Darling

3. Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It is sanity. – Katrina Mayer

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou 

2. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Just because you take breaks doesn’t mean you’re broken. ― Curtis Tyrone Jones

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. You are your best thing. - Toni Morrison

2. All I can do is be me, whoever that is. – Bob Dylan

3. In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. -Audre Lorde

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself. – Tyra Banks

2. You can’t pour from an empty cup. -Norm Kelly

3. Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. -Audre Lorde

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served. - Nina Simone

2. If I didn’t define myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. -Audre Lorde

3. You don’t have to love yourself in muttered whispers, while loving everyone else with a megaphone. ― Jasmine Farrell

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. Even if it makes others uncomfortable, I will love who I am. - Janelle Monáe

2. Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself. ― Francis de Sales

3. I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. - June Jordan

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. -Toni Morrison

2. Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck. ― Jonathan Feldman

3. Love is a blissful state, but it’s not a utopia. -Chris Ofili

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. -Arthur C. Clarke

2. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything. ― Floriano Martins

3. For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. -Henry Kissinger

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional. -AE Samaan

2. Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson

3. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. -Thomas Babington Macaulay

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. You gotta beware of the utopian train of thought, mate. That's usually the first step towards fascism. ― daniel clausen

2. Our life dreams the utopia. Our death achieves the ideal. --Victor Hugo

3. Utopia means elsewhere. -John Malkovich

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. Man's Utopian dreams get circumvented through compromise and disappointment into a tolerable reality. ― Stewart Stafford

2. Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? -Margaret Atwood

3. Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. -Paul Wellstone

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. ― Shelby Foote

2. Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath. ― Kameron Hurley

3. utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear. -Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. ― Oscar Wilde

2. There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia. ― Bertrand De Jouvenel

3. I don’t see a utopia anywhere for me. -Bozoma Saint John

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court? I say 'When there are nine.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2. Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3. Someday there will be great people, great elected representatives who will say, ‘enough of this nonsense, let’s be the kind of legislature the United States should have.' I hope that day will come when I’m still alive. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3. If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2. That's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3. My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2. The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3. You can't have it all, all at once. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.-Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3. A gender line...helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1. Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2. If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. You can disagree without being disagreeable. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2. Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?  -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3. Throwing out pre-clearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg