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.
Richard Wright - What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folk perish, America will perish.
Brandon Gonzalez - Since the development of racial capitalism—the use of African peoples as capital—our ancestors have always fought for freedom.
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
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.
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.
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.
O’brian Rosario - Juneteenth was a promise that was broken. Reconstruction failed and this country has continued to wage war on the Black body.
Brittany Packnett Cunningham - Every Black person you meet is a miracle.
Coretta Scott King - Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Tanesha Grant - As Black people, we are told we don’t deserve our own holidays rooted in our own history. Everything is whitewashed.
Martin Luther King Jr. - What matters is not how long you live…but how you live
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.
Michelle Obama - There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
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.
Richard Wright - We Black folk, our history, and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America.
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.
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.
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.
Desmond Tutu - My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Abraham Lincoln - Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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.
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.
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.
Zoé Samudzi - We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.
James Baldwin - If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
Malcom X - You can’t separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
Shirley Chisholm - In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing—anti-humanism.
Fatimata Cham - Liberation lies within us and will not be formed from the current institutional structures we have in place for it never has.
James Baldwin - Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—I, too, am America.
Aretha Franklin - We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or white. It's our basic human right.
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 Brown - Say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud!
Tatiana Glover - Juneteenth is another moment for me and my loved ones to build an archive of truth and experience of Black folks.
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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.
Langston Hughes - I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.
Rosa Parks - I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.
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
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.
Dannese Mapanda - Juneteenth reminds me of Black freedom dreams—my freedom dreams.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
John Quincy Adams - Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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.
Frederick Douglass - I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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