Speaker 1

“No.” -Rosa Parks 

“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.” -John Lewis

“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country [...] One goes to the unprotected” - James Baldwin

Speaker 2

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”- Rosa Parks

“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out nobody going to speak out for you.” -Fannie Lou Hamer

“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality.” -Malcolm X

Speaker 3

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

“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” -Toni Morrison

“Don’t agonize, organize.” -Florynce Kennedy

Speaker 4

“Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.” - Toni Morrison

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” -W.E.B. Du Bois

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Fredrick Douglass

Speaker 5

“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.” -Malcom X

“Freedom is never given; it is won.” -A. Philip Randolph

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Speaker 6

“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo — obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other”- Angela Davis

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Fredrick Douglass

“Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” -Coretta Scott King

Speaker 7

“You cannot separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” -Malcolm X

“The only bad thing about burning your bridges behind you is that the world is round.” -Ruby Bridges

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

Speaker 1

“I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.” -Betty White 

“If you’re sitting on the ground in a hammock, it’s technically still hammocking.” -N.W.

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” -Audre Lorde

Speaker 2

“Men should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable” -Cher 

“I raise my voice–not so that I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard.” -Malala Yousafzai

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” Frida Kahlo

Speaker 3

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world. As long as I can be a woman in it” -Marilyn Monroe

“What we do is more important than what we say or what we believe.” - bell hooks

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart

Speaker 4

“I have burst of being a lady, but it doesn’t last long” -Shelly Winters 

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” -Indrina Gandhi

“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do.” -Amy Poehler

Speaker 5

“I will not retire while I still have legs and my makeup box” -Bette Davis 

“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued” -Aung San Suu Kyi

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” -Jane Goodall

Speaker 6

“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” -Iyanla Vanzant

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."- Alice Paul 

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

Speaker 7

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” -Maya Angelou

“Whether we’re talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where pedegogy is, it’s wehre the learning is.” -Bell Hooks

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

Speaker 1

“I don’t have a sugar daddy. I’ve never had a sugar daddy. If I wanted a sugar daddy, yes, I could probably go out and get one because I am what? Sickening!”- Shangela

“Choices.” –Tatiana

“Unless they’re paying your bills, pay them bitches no mind.” -RuPaul

Speaker 2

“I don't get ready. I stay ready.” -Chi Chi Levaine

“And anything else was just water off a duck's back.” - Jinx Monsoon

“The biggest obstacle I’ve ever faced was my own limited perception of myself” -RuPaul

Speaker 3

“Not today, Satan. Not today.” –Bianca Del Rio

“I don’t get cute, I get drop-dead gorgeous.” -Alyssa Edwards

“I feel like you’re being sabotaged by your inner saboteur.” - RuPaul

Speaker 4

“I feel sexy in anything, even a bodybag.” –Sharon Needles

“These other girls are gonna say you have terrible makeup skills, you have no fashion sense, and you’re dumb as a rock. But they’re wrong! You don’t have terrible makeup skills.” -Alaska Thunderfuck

“We’re all born naked and the rest is drag” -RuPaul

Speaker 5

“Walk into the room purse first”- Bob the Drag Queen

"I've got all the same parts that you do, boo" - Tatiana

“By the power vested in me…by me…” –RuPaul

Speaker 6

“Don’t get bitter, Just get better” -Alyssa Edwards

“You hungry, mama?” -Jimbo the Drag Clown 

“Fulfillment isn’t over the rainbow. It is right here and now” -Rupaul

Speaker 7

“ I would sensually walk over to the thermostat and turn up the thermostat to a sensible 74 degrees” - Jujubee

“Backrolls?” -Alyssa Edwards

“If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?” -RuPaul