Speaker 1

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

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

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

Speaker 2

"Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

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

Speaker 3

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

"Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 4

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

Speaker 5

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

"In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Dissents speak to a future age.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 6

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"We are at last beginning to relegate to the history books the idea of the token woman." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Speaker 1

“The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.” -Piglet

“After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends.” -Eeyore

“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” -Christopher Robin

Speaker 2

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” -Winnie the Pooh

“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.”-Eeyore

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” -Christopher Robin

Speaker 3

“Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” -Winnie the Pooh

“They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.” -Eeyore

“I’m short and Fat and proud of that.”- Winnie the Pooh

Speaker 4

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” -Winnie the Pooh

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce” -Tigger

“People say nothing is impossible, I do nothing everyday”- Winnie the Pooh.

Speaker 5

"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." -Winnie the Pooh

“It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.”- Eeyore

“If the string breaks, then we try another piece of string.” -Owl

Speaker 6

"One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries." -Winnie the Pooh

“They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.”- Eeyore

“I am known for my inspiring rhetoric,”- Owl

Speaker 1

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”

—Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

—W.E.B. Du Bois

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”

—Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court member

Speaker 2

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

—Coretta Scott King

“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”

—Susan L. Taylor, journalist

“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”

—Carol Moseley-Braun, politician and lawyer

Speaker 3

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”

—Desmond Tutu

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

—Langston Hughes

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

—Frederick Douglass

Speaker 4

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

—Booker T. Washington

“Freedom is never given; it is won.”

—A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist

Speaker 5

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” —Rosa Parks

“Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” —Ella Fitzgerald

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson Mandela

Speaker 6

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” —Maya Angelou

“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” —Michael Jordan

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama

Speaker 7

“I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” —Morgan Freeman

“I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.” —Claudette Colvin

“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.  I rise. I rise. I rise.” —Maya Angelou