Speaker 1

It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. -bell hooks

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them. -bell hooks

But love is really more of an interactive process.  It’s about what we do, not just what we feel.  It’s a verb, not a noun. -bell hooks

Speaker 2

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope. -bell hooks

I will not have my life narrowed down.  I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.  -bell hooks

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. -bell hooks

Speaker 3

Movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it. -bell hooks

Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism. -bell hooks

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence. -bell hooks

Speaker 4

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal -bell hooks

The political core of any movement for freedom in society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.  -bell hooks  

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that’s becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.  -bell hooks

Speaker 5

I don’t think you can hate anything that you know intimately.  There is no fine line separating love from hate because there’s a deep chasm separating love from hate. -bell hooks 

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.  -bell hooks 

I have created a lifestyle that supports contemplation, service to words. -bell hooks

Speaker 6

Certainly we can end racism with love.  We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.  -bell hooks

Class is more than money.  Class is also about knowledge. –bell hooks

In this culture, the phrase ‘black woman’ is not synonymous with ‘tender’, or ‘gentle’.  It’s as if those words couldn’t possibly speak to the reality of black females. -bell hooks

Speaker 1

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.  -Frederick Douglass

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.  We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.  -Frederick Douglass

Speaker 2

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. -Frederick Douglass

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. -Frederick Douglass

Speaker 3

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.  -Frederick Douglass

To suppress free speech is a double wrong.  It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.  -Frederick Douglass

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.  -Frederick Douglass

Speaker 4

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -Frederick Douglass

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. -Frederick Douglass

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. -Frederick Douglass

Speaker 5

A person’s greatness consists in their ability to do the proper application of their powers to things needed to be done. -Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. -Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the 4th of July. -Frederick Douglass

Speaker 6

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.  -Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. -Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. -Frederick Douglass

Speaker 1

People like to see showdowns. -Usain Bolt

The hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. -Mike Colter

Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West.  But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it should function as a bridge between them.  -Henry Kissinger

Speaker 2

A person’s duty? To be ready, with a rifle or rood, to defend their home when the showdown comes. -Edward Abbey

It is how you show up at the showdown that counts. --Home H. Norton

It’s high noon.  It’s a showdown.  It’s a question of who will flinch first.-Richard Durbin

Speaker 3

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. –John Wayne

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. -Will Rogers

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. -Will Rogers

Speaker 4

Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse. -Texas Bix Bender

There are three kinds of men.  The one that learns by reading.  The few who learn by observation.  The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. -Will Rogers

Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putin it back in.  -Will Rogers

Speaker 5

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.  -Will Rogers

Do right and risk the consequences. - Sam Houston

Don’t interfere with something that ain’t bothering you none. -Roy Bean

Speaker 6

No hour of life is wasted that is spent on the saddle. - Winston Churchill

I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space right? -Liam Neeson

I never miss a good chance to shut up. -James Patterson