FREE Juneteenth Quote Templates

Gwen Carr - We are going to get out here, I am going to get out here and get something done. We have to wake up America. We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 yea

Maya Angelou - Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so impor

Tatiana Glover - Juneteenth has become a newly but proudly embraced commemoration in my family and we have been exploring the ways in which we want to experience and culturally embrace the date. Templ

Abhijit Naskar - Let me tell you, here and now as a black person, we don’t expect charity. We just expect the trust and dignity, to which the white person is entitled in this world by default. Templat

Haye Turner - My daddy told me that they whooped and hollered and bored holes in trees with augers and stopped it up with [gun] powder and light and that would be their blast for the celebration. Temp

Texas Rep.AL Edwards - Every year we must remind successive generations that this event triggered a series of events that one by one defines the challenges and responsibilities of successive generatio

Michelle Obama - What I love about #Juneteenth is that even in that extended wait, we still find something to celebrate. Even though the story has never been tidy, and Black folks have had to march an

Joy Reid - The persistence of violent white nationalism – these things have deep ugly roots, inextricably tied to slavery and its aftermath. We will be better off unearthing it and airing it out if we

Marcus Garvey - Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Carlos Cubia - Juneteenth, which is now a federal holiday, is a time to celebrate African Americans “making a way out of no way.” It’s a time to remember the remarkable things we’ve accomplished since

Al Edwards - Every year we must remind successive generations that this event triggered a series of events that one by one defines the challenges and responsibilities of successive generations. That’s

Kamala Harris - Women who fought and sacrificed so much for equality and liberty and justice for all, including Black women who are often, too often overlooked, but so often prove they are the backbon

Fred Hampton - If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win. Template

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Ilyasah Shabazz - We don't want to sit down and listen to these things, or to discuss them. But we have to. Template

Claudette Colvin - I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. Template

Bob Marley - None but ourselves can our minds. Template

Laura Smalley - They turned them loose on the nineteenth of June, and so that’s how we know to celebrate that day. Template

George Washington - I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. Template

Brandon Gonzalez - Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle. Template

Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. Template

Sikemi Okunrinboye - Emancipation was as a result of dedication, hard work, speaking up, and speaking out. Template

Howard Thurman - Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you. Template

Ralph Ellison - God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. Template

Richard Wright - What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folk perish, America will perish. Template

Martin Luther King - We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Template

Harriet Tubman - God’s time is always near. He set the North star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free. Template

Nelson Mandela - People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Template

Nikki Giovanni - Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. Template

Nelson Mandela - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. Template

Tanesha Grant - Juneteenth symbolizes the hope that my children and grandchildren will be free. It’s Black joy and Black tenacity to survive. Template

O’brian Rosario - Juneteenth was a promise that was broken. Reconstruction failed and this country has continued to wage war on the Black body. Template

Maya Angelou - Won’t it be wonderful when Black history, and Native American history, and Jewish history, and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. Template

Bethel Kyeza - Juneteenth allows us to remember how far Black people have progressed since and it is a reminder of the strength we have within us. Template

Shirley Chisholm - In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing—anti-humanism. Template

Tatiana Glover - Juneteenth is another moment for me and my loved ones to build an archive of truth and experience of Black folks. Template

Brittany Packnett Cunningham - Every Black person you meet is a miracle. Template

Richard Wright - We Black folk, our history, and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America. Template

O’brian Rosario - Juneteenth also embodies the resilience of Black people. Even in the face of a broken system, we choose to find joy in resistance and celebrate in community. Template

Dannese Mapanda - Juneteenth reminds me of Black freedom dreams—my freedom dreams. Template

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. Template

James Baldwin - Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—I, too, am America. Template

Beyonce - No violence will create peace…To effect change we must show love in the face of hate and peace in the face of violence. Template

Brandon Gonzalez - Studying the blueprints of liberation, one can map out the ways we as The Global African Diaspora have continued to resist and exist under regimes of anti-Black terror. Template

Brandon Gonzalez - Since the development of racial capitalism—the use of African peoples as capital—our ancestors have always fought for freedom. Template

Fatimata Cham - Liberation lies within us and will not be formed from the current institutional structures we have in place for it never has. Template

Mariah Cooley - June 19th reminds me that I am the force of power to change this world and to follow in the footsteps of my ancestors to work towards liberation. Template

Coretta Scott King - Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. Template

Martin Luther King Jr. - The goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny. Template

Zoé Samudzi - We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for. Template