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Sikemi Okunrinboye - Emancipation was as a result of dedication, hard work, speaking up, and speaking out. Template

Gwen Carr - We are going to get out here, I am going to get out here and get something done. We have to wake up America. We have to make America uncomfortable like we’ve been uncomfortable for 400 yea

Howard Thurman - Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you. Template

Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. 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

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

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

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

Abhijit Naskar - Let me tell you, here and now as a black person, we don’t expect charity. We just expect the trust and dignity, to which the white person is entitled in this world by default. Templat

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

Tanesha Grant - Juneteenth symbolizes the hope that my children and grandchildren will be free. It’s Black joy and Black tenacity to survive. 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

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

Nikki Giovanni - Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. 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 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

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

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

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

Dannese Mapanda - Juneteenth reminds me of Black freedom dreams—my freedom dreams. 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

James Baldwin - Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—I, too, am America. 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

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

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 - Since the development of racial capitalism—the use of African peoples as capital—our ancestors have always fought for freedom. Template

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. Temp

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

James Baldwin - If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. 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. - What matters is not how long you live…but how you live Template

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

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

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

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

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