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Frederick Douglass - I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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.
Michelle Obama - There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
Abraham Lincoln - Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Theodorea Regina Berry - The proclamation notes that freedom shall not be repressed. This is what I believe to be the primary significance of Juneteenth.
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.
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.
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.
Frederick Douglass - Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Malcom X - You can’t separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Desmond Tutu - My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Langston Hughes - I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.
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.
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.
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
James Baldwin - If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
Martin Luther King Jr. - What matters is not how long you live…but how you live
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