FREE Juneteenth Quote Templates

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

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

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.

Fannie Lou Hamer - Nobody’s until everybody’s

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

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.

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

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

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