Ali Abbasi: If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why?

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If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why?

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first published 11 Sep 2026

Get uncomfortable. That's where growth lives.

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Ahmed Zewail Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999

At the age of 21, as a Moeid, I believed that behind every universal phenomenon there must be beauty and simplicity in its description. This belief remains true today.

Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 1999 source ↗

Martin Luther King Jr. Baptist minister; President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1957–1968

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter.

Recorded Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, 4 February 1968 source ↗

Mellody Hobson Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments

We cannot afford to be color blind. We have to be color brave. We have to be willing, as teachers and parents and entrepreneurs and scientists, we have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding and courage, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the smart thing to do, because our businesses and our products and our science, our research, all of that will be better with greater diversity.

Recorded TED2014, 20 March 2014 source ↗

Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1985–1991; President of the Soviet Union 1990–1991

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 5 June 1991 source ↗

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