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Naval Ravikant - It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.
Deep Roy - Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.
S.C. Lourie - Just for the record, darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.
Walt Whitman - Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.
Jodi Picoul - Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Light tomorrow with today!
Laura Smalley - They turned them loose on the nineteenth of June, and so that’s how we know to celebrate that day.
Claudette Colvin - I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
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
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
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
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
Bob Marley - None but ourselves can our minds.
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
Shirley Chisholm - In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing—anti-humanism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nelson Mandela - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
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.
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.
Ralph Ellison - God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Brandon Gonzalez - Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle.
Sikemi Okunrinboye - Emancipation was as a result of dedication, hard work, speaking up, and speaking out.
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
Howard Thurman - Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
O’brian Rosario - Juneteenth was a promise that was broken. Reconstruction failed and this country has continued to wage war on the Black body.
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.
Tanesha Grant - Juneteenth symbolizes the hope that my children and grandchildren will be free. It’s Black joy and Black tenacity to survive.
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.
Nikki Giovanni - Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
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.
Zoé Samudzi - We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.
Ella Fitzgerald - Just don't give up what you're trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Tanesha Grant - As Black people, we are told we don’t deserve our own holidays rooted in our own history. Everything is whitewashed.
John Lewis - You must never, ever give out. We must keep the faith because we are one people. We are brothers and sisters. We all live in the same house—the American house.
Dannese Mapanda - Juneteenth reminds me of Black freedom dreams—my freedom dreams.
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.
Brandon Gonzalez - Since the development of racial capitalism—the use of African peoples as capital—our ancestors have always fought for freedom.
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.
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.
James Baldwin - Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—I, too, am America.
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.
Coretta Scott King - Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Chadwick Boseman - Understanding history is one of many ways to break the cycle. Lift up/amplify Black voices. Support Black owned businesses. Reach back. Mentor.
Richard Wright - We Black folk, our history, and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America.
Richard Wright - What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folk perish, America will perish.
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