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Deep Roy - Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen. Template
Naval Ravikant - It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive. Template
Abraham Lincoln - Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Template
Simon & Garfunkel - I’ve got nothing to do today but smile. Template
Buddha - Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Template
Tim Howard - Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better. Template
Robert A. Cook - Say and do something positive that will help the situation. It doesn’t take any brains to complain. Template
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Light tomorrow with today! Template
Jodi Picoul - Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. Template
Jim Rohn - Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. Template
Ted Nugent - I surround myself with positive, productive people of goodwill and decency. Template
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr - We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. Template
Rick Steves - Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not your liking, change your liking. Template
Joyce Brothers - A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. Template
Roy T. Bennett - Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes. Template
Diane von Furstenberg - You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. Template
Hafez - Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. Template
Neeraj Singhvinew - Letting go of toxic thoughts and people who bring a lot of negativity to your life are major steps towards being happy. Template
Hannah Bronfman - Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to grow externally. Template
Claudette Colvin - I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. Template
Laura Smalley - They turned them loose on the nineteenth of June, and so that’s how we know to celebrate that day. Template
Bob Marley - None but ourselves can our minds. 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
Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. Template
Brandon Gonzalez - Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle. 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
Sikemi Okunrinboye - Emancipation was as a result of dedication, hard work, speaking up, and speaking out. Template
Brandon Gonzalez - Since the development of racial capitalism—the use of African peoples as capital—our ancestors have always fought for freedom. 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
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
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
James Baldwin - Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—I, too, am America. 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
Dannese Mapanda - Juneteenth reminds me of Black freedom dreams—my freedom dreams. 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
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
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
Richard Wright - We Black folk, our history, and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America. Template
Brittany Packnett Cunningham - Every Black person you meet is a miracle. 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
Tatiana Glover - Juneteenth is another moment for me and my loved ones to build an archive of truth and experience of Black folks. Template
Shirley Chisholm - In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing—anti-humanism. 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
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
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
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
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
Tanesha Grant - Juneteenth symbolizes the hope that my children and grandchildren will be free. It’s Black joy and Black tenacity to survive. Template
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