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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
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
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
Desmond Tutu - My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Template
John Quincy Adams - Where annual elections end where slavery begins. 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
Langston Hughes - I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me. Template
Martin Luther King Jr. - Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 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
Abraham Lincoln - Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 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
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
Michelle Obama - There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. 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
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
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
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
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
Rosa Parks - I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free. Template
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.
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.
James Brown - Say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud!
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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.
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
Claudette Colvin - I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
Laura Smalley - They turned them loose on the nineteenth of June, and so that’s how we know to celebrate that day.
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
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
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
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
O’brian Rosario - Juneteenth was a promise that was broken. Reconstruction failed and this country has continued to wage war on the Black body.
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