FREE Quote Templates

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

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

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

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. Template

Tanesha Grant - As Black people, we are told we don’t deserve our own holidays rooted in our own history. Everything is whitewashed. Template

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. Template

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

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. Template

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

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

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

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

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. Template

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

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

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. Template

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

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

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

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

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

James Brown - Say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud! Template

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. Template

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. Template

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. Template

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

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

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

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

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

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. Template

Fannie Lou Hamer - Nobody’s until everybody’s Template

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

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

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. Template

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

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

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. Template

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

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. Template

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

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi - Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. Template

Robert Orben - Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. Template

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

John Wooden - Make today your masterpiece. Template

George Washington Carver - Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. Template

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