B. Junior Impromptu Event Prompts
9:30AM - Round 1, Pattern B
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou
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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." – W.E.B. Du Bois
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“You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t sustain you.” – Lupita Nyong’o
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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“Democracy is the best revenge.” – Benazir Bhutto
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen Keller
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." –
Nelson Mandela
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." – Frederick Douglass
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“Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
– Malala Yousafzai
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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." -- Amelia
Earhart
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
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"The most important thing is to enjoy your life--to be happy--it's all that matters." -- Audrey Hepburn
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"Freedom is never given; it is won." – A. Philip Randolph
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“It’s only when you go too far that others listen.” – Indira Gandhi
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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“It’s time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.” – Iyanla Vanzant
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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." -- Florence Nightingale
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"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." – Jackie Robinson
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
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"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." – Desmond Tutu
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“You can fall, but you can rise also.” – Angelique Kidjo
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
-- Alice Walker
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1:45pm - Round 2, Pattern B
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." -- Emily Dickinson
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"What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?" – Toni Morrison
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“If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.” – Gabrielle Union
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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“Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.”– Sadie Delany
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“Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with
positive." -- Betty Eadie
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"Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us." – Susan L.
Taylor
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.” – Harriet Tubman
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“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot
accept.” – Angela Davis
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"Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve." -- Marianne
Williamson
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
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“Knowing what must be done does away with fear." -- Rosa Parks
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"Truth does not change, only our awareness of it." – Malcolm X
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“The way to win is to try.” – Stacey Abrams
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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“When the heart is right, the mind and body will follow.” – Coretta Scott King
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“Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again
tomorrow." -- Mary Anne Radmacher
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"I chose to speak truth. Even when it's uncomfortable. Even when it leaves people feeling
uneasy. " – Kamala Harris
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
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"Whoever debases others is debasing himself." – James Baldwin
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“You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
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"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit." -- Helena Rubinstein
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5:45pm, ALL IE Finals
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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“Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." -- Ella Fitzgerald
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“You’re not selfish for wanting to be treated well.” – Jason Momoa
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“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.” -Standing Bear
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths." – Drew Barrymore
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“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” – Dakota Tribe
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“Don’t live up to your stereotypes.” – Sherman Alexie
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
“If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Maria Tallchie
“Knowledge is always the loudest voice." – Zendaya
“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” – Navajo TribeSpeaker 4
Speaker 4
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“Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.” – Omaha Tribe
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“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.” – Wilma Mankiller
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"I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” –
Simone Biles
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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"I can if I want to because it's my business." – Tabitha Brown
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“If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” – Minquass Tribe
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“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” – Tecumseh
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” – Chief Joseph "Change takes courage." – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Man has responsibility, not power.” – Tuscarora Tribe