Chadwick Boseman - Understanding history is one of many ways to break the cycle. Lift up/amplify Black voices. Support Black owned businesses. Reach back. Mentor.
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.
Sikemi Okunrinboye - Emancipation was as a result of dedication, hard work, speaking up, and speaking out.
Tatiana Glover - Juneteenth is another moment for me and my loved ones to build an archive of truth and experience of Black folks.
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
Robert A. Cook - Say and do something positive that will help the situation. It doesn’t take any brains to complain.
Diane von Furstenberg - You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
S.C. Lourie - Just for the record, darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.
Richard Wright - We Black folk, our history, and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America.
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.
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
O’brian Rosario - Juneteenth was a promise that was broken. Reconstruction failed and this country has continued to wage war on the Black body.
Al Edwards - Every year we must remind successive generations that this event triggered a series of events that one by one defines the challenges and responsibilities of successive generations. That’s
Joyce Brothers - A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Jim Rohn - Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Richard Wright - What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folk perish, America will perish.
Nelson Mandela - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
Howard Thurman - Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
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.
Bob Marley - None but ourselves can our minds.
Roy T. Bennett - Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
Hafez - Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
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
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.
Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
Tanesha Grant - Juneteenth symbolizes the hope that my children and grandchildren will be free. It’s Black joy and Black tenacity to survive.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Light tomorrow with today!
Neeraj Singhvinew - Letting go of toxic thoughts and people who bring a lot of negativity to your life are major steps towards being happy.
Simon & Garfunkel - I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
Shirley Chisholm - In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing—anti-humanism.
Tatiana Glover - Juneteenth has become a newly but proudly embraced commemoration in my family and we have been exploring the ways in which we want to experience and culturally embrace the date.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr - We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
Tim Howard - Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.
Abraham Lincoln - Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
Ralph Ellison - God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Fatimata Cham - Liberation lies within us and will not be formed from the current institutional structures we have in place for it never has.
Nikki Giovanni - Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
Hannah Bronfman - Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to grow externally.
Ted Nugent - I surround myself with positive, productive people of goodwill and decency.
Naval Ravikant - It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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.
Brandon Gonzalez - Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle.
Brittany Packnett Cunningham - Every Black person you meet is a miracle.
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.
Rick Steves - Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not your liking, change your liking.
Buddha - Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Deep Roy - Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.
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