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Jim Ryun - Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

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

Frederick Douglass - I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

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

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.

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

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

Coretta Scott King - Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Karen Lamb - A year from now, you may wish you had started today.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Doe Zantamata - Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.

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.

James Brown - Say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud!

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.

Aretha Franklin - We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or white. It's our basic human right.

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

Abu Bakr - It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Fannie Lou Hamer - Nobody’s until everybody’s

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.

Langston Hughes - I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but 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.

Zoé Samudzi - We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.

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.

Toni Morrison - Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

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.

Theodorea Regina Berry - The proclamation notes that freedom shall not be repressed. This is what I believe to be the primary significance of Juneteenth.

Frederick Douglass - Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

James Baldwin - If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Martin Luther King Jr. - What matters is not how long you live…but how you live

Tanesha Grant - As Black people, we are told we don’t deserve our own holidays rooted in our own history. Everything is whitewashed.

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

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.

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.

Abraham Lincoln - Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Desmond Tutu - My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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

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.

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.