Speaker 1

1. "A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." — Eleanor Roosevelt

2. "I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels." — Maya Angelou

3. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." — Coco Chanel

Speaker 2

1. "We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." — Malala Yousafzai

2. "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." — Audre Lorde

3. "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." — Margaret Thatcher

Speaker 3

1. "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." — Charlotte Whitton

2. "I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." — Mary Wollstonecraft

3. "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." — Janis Joplin

Speaker 4

1. "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." — Michelle Obama

2. "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." — Melinda Gates

3. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." — Helen Keller

Speaker 5

1. "Women don't need to find a voice. They have a voice. They need to feel empowered to use it, and people need to be encouraged to listen." — Meghan Markle

2. "I’m not the woman president of Harvard. I’m the president of Harvard." — Drew Gilpin Faust

3. "Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you." — Viola Davis

Speaker 6

1. "Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength." — G.D. Anderson

2. "They’ll tell you you’re too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway." — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

3. "Don’t think about making women fit the world—think about making the world fit women." — Gloria Steinem

Speaker 1

1. "History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us." — James Baldwin

2. "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." — Booker T. Washington

3. "The need for change bulldozed a road through the center of my mind." — Maya Angelou

Speaker 2

1. "Defining myself, rather than being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face." — Carol Moseley Braun

2. "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." — Shirley Chisholm

3. "Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." — Coretta Scott King

Speaker 3

1. "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." — Desmond Tutu

2. "Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness." — Ola Joseph

3. "Freedom is never given; it is won." — A. Philip Randolph

Speaker 4

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

2. "Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations." — Dr. Mae Jemison

3. "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle." — Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 5

1. "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." — Angela Davis

2. "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." — Booker T. Washington

3. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." — Jackie Robinson

Speaker 6

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

2. "The soul that is within me no man can degrade." — Frederick Douglass

3. "Truth is powerful and it prevails." — Sojourner Truth

Speaker 1

1. “The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family." — Chief Seattle (Suquamish/Duwamish)

2. "Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future." — Lumbee Proverb

3. "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." — Lakota Proverb

Speaker 2

1. "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." — Great Law of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)

2. "Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit." — Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux)

3. "A people without a history is like the wind over the buffalo grass." — Sioux Saying

Speaker 3

1. "Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of confusing thoughts." — Hopi Proverb

2. "When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money." — Cree Prophecy

3. "It is no longer good enough to cry 'peace,' we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace." — Shenandoah (Oneida)

Speaker 4

1. "The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." — Hopi Proverb

2. "Walking is better than talking." — Blackfoot Proverb

3. "A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky." — Crazy Horse (Oglala Lakota)

Speaker 5

1. "Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows." — Ojibwe Wisdom

2. "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." — Haida Proverb

3. "It does not require many words to speak the truth." — Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)

Speaker 6

1. "Go forward with courage. When you are in doubt, be still and wait." — Chief White Eagle (Ponca)

2. "The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry." — Omaha Proverb

3. "Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance." — Lakota Proverb

Speaker 1

1. The Ship of Theseus: If every plank of a ship is replaced over time, is it still the same ship? If the old planks are used to build a second ship, which one is the "real" one?

2. The Liar’s Paradox: A man says, "I am lying." If he is telling the truth, he is lying. If he is lying, he is telling the truth.

Speaker 2

1. The Hedonist Paradox: Happiness is most often found when you are not looking for it; the more you pursue it, the more it eludes you.

2. The Tolerance Paradox: If a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

Speaker 3

1. The Paradox of Choice: The more options we have, the more difficult it is to choose and the less satisfied we are with our final decision.

2. The Grandfather Paradox: If you travel back in time and prevent your grandfather from meeting your grandmother, you would never be born—but if you were never born, you couldn't have traveled back to stop them.

Speaker 4

1. The Sorites Paradox (The Heap): If you take a heap of sand and remove one grain, it is still a heap. If you keep removing grains, at what exact point does it stop being a "heap"?

2. The Barber Paradox: A barber shaves all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves. Does the barber shave himself?

Speaker 5

1. The Epicurean Paradox: If God is willing to prevent evil but not able, he is not all-powerful. If he is able but not willing, he is malevolent. If he is both able and willing, whence comes evil?

2. The Paradox of Envy: We often envy the success of others, yet if we achieved that same success ourselves, we would likely be envied and resented by the very people we seek to impress.

Speaker 6

1. The Search Paradox: You cannot look for what you already know (because you have it) and you cannot look for what you do not know (because you don't know what to look for).

2. The Fermi Paradox: Given the vast age and size of the universe, the probability of extraterrestrial life is high—so why have we seen no evidence of it?

Speaker 7

1. Zeno’s Arrow: At any single moment in time, a flying arrow is at a fixed point in space. If it is fixed at every moment, when does it actually move?

2. Jevons Paradox: an increase in the efficiency of a resource actually leads to an increase in its total consumption, rather than a decrease, because the lower cost of use drives higher demand.