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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

Doe Zantamata - Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.

Fannie Lou Hamer - Nobody’s until everybody’s

Theodorea Regina Berry - The proclamation notes that freedom shall not be repressed. This is what I believe to be the primary significance of Juneteenth.

Frederick Douglass - Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

James Baldwin - If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

Jim Ryun - Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

E. B. White - I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.

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

Abu Bakr - It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Pharrell Williams - The day we were free—everyone was free. Why not make it a paid holiday? We deserve that…We want a day that is inclusive to everyone.

Dr. Greg Carr - Every June 19th is an opportunity for us to continue the momentum of memory, and the parade and the self-determination movements.

Malcom X - You can’t separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Martin Luther King Jr. - What matters is not how long you live…but how you live

Marty Rubin - Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins.

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

Toni Morrison - Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Maya Angelou - You may kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Abraham Lincoln - Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Desmond Tutu - My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Martin Luther King Jr. - Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Light tomorrow with today.

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

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

Colin Kaepernick - I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color.

Michelle Obama - There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Kevin Bales - Slavery is theft—theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

Martin Luther King Jr. - Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Denise Brennan-Nelson - Someday is not a day of the week.

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

Martin Luther King Jr. - Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Frederick Douglass - I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Harriet Tubman - Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Harriet Tubman - I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Martin Luther King Jr. - Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Bernard Williams - There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Aretha Franklin - We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or white. It's our basic human right.

Malcolm X - You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Rosa Parks - I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.

Alan Keyes - The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

John Quincy Adams - Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Steve Maraboli - When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

John Wooden - Make today your masterpiece.

Karen Lamb - A year from now, you may wish you had started today.

Harriet Tubman - I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Kwame Nkruma - Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Langston Hughes - I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.

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.

Paulo Coelho - One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

Paul Henderson - I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day.