Speaker 1

“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.” — William Gibson

“The greatest teacher, failure is.” — Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” — Terry Pratchett

Speaker 2

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde

“Life finds a way.” — Jurassic Park

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” — George Orwell

Speaker 3

“There is no such thing as a harmless weapon.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“You are who you choose to be.” — The Iron Giant

“The future is not set.” — Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Speaker 4

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” — Arthur C. Clarke

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay

“What is grief, if not love persevering?” — WandaVision

Speaker 5

“You must never feel frightened to become a piece of the puzzle.” — Douglas Adams

“There are no ordinary people.” — C.S. Lewis

“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” — Stephen Hawking

Speaker 6

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” — Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

“When you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” — Robert A. Heinlein

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” — Isaac Asimov

Speaker 7

“The Force will be with you. Always.” — Star Wars

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” — Carl Sagan

“You can’t take back what you’ve already done.” — Arthur C. Clarke

Speaker 1

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass

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

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 2

“You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison

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

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

Speaker 3

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

“Service is the rent we pay for living.” — Shirley Chisholm

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.” — Sojourner Truth

Speaker 4

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” — Cornel West

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without.” — James Baldwin

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 5

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world.” — Angela Davis

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change.” — Angela Davis

Speaker 6

“History has shown us that courage can be contagious.” — Michelle Obama

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” — Zora Neale Hurston

“A people without the knowledge of their past history is like a tree without roots.” — Marcus Garvey

Speaker 7

“You can kill a revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution.” — Fred Hampton

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 1

“There is no single answer that will solve all of our future problems.” — Octavia E. Butler

“The future is ours to write.” — Lovecraft Country

“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships.” — Black Panther

Speaker 2

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” — Toni Morrison

“Even if it makes others uncomfortable, I will love who I am.” — Janelle Monáe

“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” — The Hate U Give

Speaker 3

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down.” — Toni Morrison

“We can’t be afraid to tell the truth about ourselves.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Speaker 4

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” — June Jordan

“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” — Edgar Cayce

Speaker 5

“The revolution will not be televised.” — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

“When they go low, we go high.” — Michelle Obama

“The only lasting truth is change.” — Octavia E. Butler

Speaker 6

“The system isn’t broken. It was built this way.” — The Matrix Reloaded

“Kindness eases change.” — Octavia E. Butler

“In times of crisis, the wise build bridges.” — Black Panther

Speaker 7

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.” — Octavia E. Butler

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X

“My humanity is bound up in yours.” — Desmond Tutu