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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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Nelson Mandela - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. Template
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Nikki Giovanni - Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. Template
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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
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Aretha Franklin - We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or white. It's our basic human right. Template
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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
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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
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Tanesha Grant - As Black people, we are told we don’t deserve our own holidays rooted in our own history. Everything is whitewashed. Template
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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
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Langston Hughes - I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me. Template
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Frederick Douglass - Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Template
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Malcom X - You can’t separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Template
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Desmond Tutu - My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Template
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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
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John Quincy Adams - Where annual elections end where slavery begins. Template
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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
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James Baldwin - If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. Template
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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
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Martin Luther King Jr. - What matters is not how long you live…but how you live Template
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. Template
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Template
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Template
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Toni Morrison - Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Template
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Shirley Chisholm - In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. Template
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Template
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Malcolm X - You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Template
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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
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Fannie Lou Hamer - Nobody’s until everybody’s Template
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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
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Maya Angelou - You may kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I’ll rise. Template
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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
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Frederick Douglass - I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. Template
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Rosa Parks - I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free. Template
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James Brown - Say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud! Template
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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
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Abraham Lincoln - Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Template
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Michelle Obama - There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. Template
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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
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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
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