Speaker 1

Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey

You can be the lead in your own life. – Kerry Washington

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving’s definitely not for you. -Steven Wright

Speaker 2

I’ve always wanted to be somebody but now I realize I should have been more specific. -Lily Tomlin

People need to think about the messages they’re sending in movies. – Morgan Freeman

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. -Joan Rivers

Speaker 3

The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. -Whitney Houston

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.-Mel Brooks

If you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. – Denzel Washington

Speaker 4

Never worry about bad press. All that matters is that they spell your name right.-Kate Hudson

 I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ‘em later. -Mitch Hedberg 

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. – Ruby Dee

Speaker 5

You can’t move mountains by whispering at them. – Pink

 If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. – Dolly Parton

You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once. – Oprah Winfrey

Speaker 6

Well the players gonna play play play play play. -Taylor Swift 

Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.-Emma Watson

You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte

Speaker 1

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions. – George W. Bush

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.  – Margaret Thatcher

Speaker 2

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln

Fear is always with us, but we don’t have time for it.—Hillary Clinton

Speaker 3

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -MLK

Don’t underestimate your opponent, but don’t overestimate them either.—Nancy Pelosi

You are the one who you’ve been waiting for. -Barack Obama

Speaker 4

The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government. -Thomas Paine

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.—Sandra Day O’Conner

I like that about Republicans: the evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts. - Bill Clinton

Speaker 5

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

We should be glad of an opportunity to serve others…and this we should do freely and generously. – Benjamin Franklin

Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough. – Karl Marx

Speaker 6

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.—Ronald Reagan

I like the dreams of the future rather than the history of the past.—Thomas Jefferson

My mother had a saying, “You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you aren’t the last.”—Kamala Harris

Speaker 1

Art is not living. It is the use of living. – Audre Lorde

I will not take ‘but’ for an answer. – Langston Hughes

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you. – Maya Angelou

Speaker 2

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. – Harper Lee

I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said. – Thuli Madonsela

Speaker 3

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. – Gloria Steinem

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. – Alex Haley

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. – J. M Barrie

Speaker 4

I learned that a friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. – Maya Angelou

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored – Aldous Huxley

Whenever you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

Speaker 5

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between – Oscar Wilde

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come – Victor Hugo

Not the senses I have, but what I do with them, is my kingdom – Helen Keller

Speaker 6

Never mistake motion for action. – Ernest Hemingway

You wanna fly. You got to give up the shit that weighs you down. -Toni Morrison

I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. – Alice Walker

Speaker 1

Showing up is 80 percent of life.  The other 20 is waiting around. – Anonymous

Before you begin a journey of revenge, dig two graves.—Confucius

A thief thinks everyone steals.—Indian proverb

Speaker 2

Life is really simple, yet we insist on making it complicated.—Confucius

If you live on the river, befriend the crocodile. – Indian proverb

If you’re worried about being a fake, you’re not. – Anonymous

Speaker 3

He who chases two rabbits, catches none. – Confucius

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given him wings. – Indian proverb

You don’t have to be a social butterfly – just don’t be a wasp. – Anonymous

Speaker 4

Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. – Hopi proverb

You cannot open a book without learning something. – Confucius

Figure out what you can get done in five years, but also in five minutes. – Anonymous

Speaker 5

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. – Apache proverb

If you hate a person, you are defeated by them. – Confucius

One good reason to do something you don’t want to is, when it’s done, you won’t have to do it anymore. – Anonymous

Speaker 6

If you see what is right, and fail to act on it, you lack courage. – Confucius

It’s not about doing a hundred things, but the handful of things that matter. – Anonymous

Don’t poison someone whom you can kill with sweets.—Indian proverb

Speaker 1

When the world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.-- Malala Yousafzai

No voice is too soft when that voice speaks for others.-- Janna Cachola

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.-- Samantha Power

Speaker 2

Since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.-- Martin Luther King Jr

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.-- Mahatma Gandhi

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.—Harriet Tubman

Speaker 3

I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living.—Harvey Milk

Many politicians and advocates say they want to help people, they do, themselves.― C.A.A. Savastano

The people who are trying to be on our side have reduced us to a mere calculation”― Sarah Kurchak

Speaker 4

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.—Malcolm X

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.--Al Gore

Revolution is not a onetime event. – Audre Lorde

Speaker 5

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it’s ripe; you have to make it fall. – Che Guevara

Do not judge me by my successes, but by how many times I fell and got back up. – Nelson Mandel

Don’t agonize; organize. – Florence Kennedy

Speaker 6

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes. -- Dan Millman

True advocacy is born of culture; not technology. -- Jay Baer

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we have. -- Steve Jobs