Martin Luther King, Jr. - Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
S.C. Lourie - Just for the record, darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.
Diane von Furstenberg - You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Robert A. Cook - Say and do something positive that will help the situation. It doesn’t take any brains to complain.
Claudette Colvin - I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
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.
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.
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.
Earl Nightingale - All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Deep Roy - Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.
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.
Rick Steves - Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not your liking, change your liking.
Marcus Garvey - Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.
Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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.
Jim Thompson - Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.
Naval Ravikant - It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.
Ted Nugent - I surround myself with positive, productive people of goodwill and decency.
Hannah Bronfman - Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to grow externally.
Laura Smalley - They turned them loose on the nineteenth of June, and so that’s how we know to celebrate that day.
Howard Thurman - Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
Nikki Giovanni - Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
Oprah Winfrey - You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Abraham Lincoln - Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Tim Howard - Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr - We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
Carlos Cubia - Juneteenth, which is now a federal holiday, is a time to celebrate African Americans “making a way out of no way.” It’s a time to remember the remarkable things we’ve accomplished since
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
Nelson Mandela - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
Colin Powell - Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Simon & Garfunkel - I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
Neeraj Singhvinew - Letting go of toxic thoughts and people who bring a lot of negativity to your life are major steps towards being happy.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Light tomorrow with today!
Bob Marley - None but ourselves can our minds.
Sikemi Okunrinboye - Emancipation was as a result of dedication, hard work, speaking up, and speaking out.
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.
Jodi Picoul - Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
Hafez - Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
Roy T. Bennett - Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
Texas Rep.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 generatio
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
Brandon Gonzalez - Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle.
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.
Walt Whitman - Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.
Jim Rohn - Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Joyce Brothers - A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joy Reid - The persistence of violent white nationalism – these things have deep ugly roots, inextricably tied to slavery and its aftermath. We will be better off unearthing it and airing it out if we
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
Ralph Ellison - God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Tanesha Grant - Juneteenth symbolizes the hope that my children and grandchildren will be free. It’s Black joy and Black tenacity to survive.
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