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Six attendees gave toasts throughout the night—speaking to the importance of finding hope in hard times and the commitment needed to create change. ## **La June Montgomery Tabron on looking to the future** La June Montgomery Tabron, president and chief executive officer at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, a sponsor of the event, spoke of the legacy—and fragility— of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in her toast. The law is currently facing a number of legal challenges—including at least three [Supreme Court cases](https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/the-voting-rights-act-at-60-a-legacy-in-jeopardy-a-democracy-at-risk). “The Voting Rights Act that empowered generations of Black voters has been gutted, and more than half a century of hard-fought progress toward racial equity is under attack,” Tabron said. She urged the audience to act with an eye to the future. “Our children may not yet know all that is at stake, but they can feel the effects of every decision we make. They are watching us. They're watching how we respond in this moment, because their future depends on what we do next,” she said. “It's up to all of us to show them what it looks like to listen and lead with empathy, to build community, to transform unjust systems into infrastructure rooted in dignity, equity, and care.” ## **David Hogg on championing change** In the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, David Hogg, then a senior at the Parkland, Fla. high school, was told that changing gun control laws would be impossible. But the gun control activist and co-founder of Leaders We Deserve and March For Our Lives didn’t listen. “Because we had the audacity to not listen to those naysayers…we actually had the one thing that they didn't, which was the belief that change actually could be possible,” he said in his toast. In the years since the shooting, his advocacy, along with that of other gun violence activists, has led to a number of changes—from the passage of red flag laws across the country, which disarms people who pose a risk to themselves or others, to the creation of the Biden Administration’s Office of Gun Control Prevention. “It's not a matter of whether or not people say it's possible,” he said, quoting activist Dolores Huerta. “It's a matter of whether or not you can make people actually believe that it’s possible.” ## **Yara Shahidi questions the world** Actor and producer Yara Shahidi, best known for her role on the ABC show _black-ish,_ spoke of the importance of questioning the world around us in her toast. “All of those smaller questions—the why, the how, the where—are really about locating sites of change,” she said. “And for me, a curiosity, a belief in change and a willingness to explore all possibilities is truly an admission of hope.” She spoke of how young people have often been at the forefront of change. “Every time the world takes a regressive step back, I see a young person take a step forward and make good trouble, ask tough questions, and demand more from this future and this moment,” she added. “I toast to people who insist that there are more out there, and to my generation who's telling us that dreaming big is not naive, but it's what we have a duty to do.” ## **Jasmine Crockett on finding opportunities for change** In her toast, U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) urged attendees to find opportunity in systems that are not working. “We shouldn't look at this as a moment in which the glass is half empty, but instead half full, because we have systems that obviously failed for a reason,” she said. “Some of these systems never worked for some of us anyway. So this is an opportunity for us to build back better.” As the Trump Administration has looked to test the limits of constitutional rights, Crockett told the audience to have faith in the strength of the constitution—while also taking action to ensure that the rights it guarantees are protected. “Our foundation is in our Constitution. Our foundation is in the fights that have already been fought and won,” she said. “But at the end of the day, we have to build something that can't be blown apart because we end up with corrupt people in positions \[of power.\]” ## **Imani Perry on deliberate commitments** In her toast, Imani Perry, professor of gender, sexuality, and African American studies at Harvard University, said that, when it comes to finding reasons to be hopeful, we no longer have “the freedom for inspiration.” “Hope must be deliberate, cultivated and a lifelong, ever present commitment.” She spoke of her family lineage, calling back to her ancestor Easter—born in 1776 before the United States was created, who “witnessed a nation fashioning itself without considering her as part of it.” “Generations followed, in each successive one, enough hope was invested in the following generation, in order to do more than endure: hope to grow, to believe, and to imagine,” she said. “Along with myriad others, they formed a linked chain of heart, imagination, and intellect. We continue to lock arms across generations too, ever committed in even the most desperate of times.” She urged attendees to remember that “hope is a virtue.” “Let us imagine a world in which expediency and comfort don’t take precedence over respect for every precious human and ecosystem,” she said. “Let us believe that everyone matters. And act accordingly. ## **Victor Glover calls for unity** Early next year, NASA astronaut Victor Glover will join a crew of astronauts traveling to the moon and back. Along the way, they will be unable to see or communicate with those on Earth for a 45 minute period. During his toast, Glover spoke of the upcoming moment, referred to by NASA as an “LOS” or loss of signal, and encouraged the audience to commit to—and spread the idea of— a “global moment of togetherness” during that time. “That 45 minutes is an opportunity for us to do something that I think is bigger than a moon shot—what humanity calls great things that we do together. It's an opportunity for us to do one thing, to be together, to be humans,” he said. “If we as people could just decide to put down the bitterness, the strife, the division, the vitriol that is getting in between us… that would be amazing… For the rest of our existence, we would be able to refer back to that moment where, for that one moment, we were one thing.” _The TIME Impact Dinner: Pathways to Thrive—Driving Resilient Change for a Just Future was presented by the W.K. 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