Something Must Be Done

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy

“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.”

— Malcolm X

“Our masters have not heard the people’s voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them’s making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?”

— Jerry Seinfeld

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You’re sitting at your computer working on something really important. And then you think, Man, I wonder if Home Alone 2 made more money than Home Alone 1. I gotta look into this. NOW.”

— Aziz Ansari

“A poet’s work [is] to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”

— Salman Rushdie

“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Everything’s amazing right now, and nobody’s happy.”

— Louis C.K.

“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault worse by the excuse.”

— Shakespeare, King John

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

— Toni Morrison, Beloved

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I’m capable of living in the moment. And I’m especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people’s moments.”

— Samantha Bee

Student Conference Coordinators

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