Joyce Meyer - A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Jeff Kinney - Be yourself and people will like you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Thomas S. Monson - You do not find the happy life. You make it.
Neeraj Singhvinew - Letting go of toxic thoughts and people who bring a lot of negativity to your life are major steps towards being happy.
Tim Howard - Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.
Ted Nugent - I surround myself with positive, productive people of goodwill and decency.
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.
Diane von Furstenberg - You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Jim Rohn - Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Hafez - Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Light tomorrow with today!
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr - We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
Hannah Bronfman - Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to grow externally.
Rick Steves - Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not your liking, change your liking.
Robert A. Cook - Say and do something positive that will help the situation. It doesn’t take any brains to complain.
Roy T. Bennett - Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
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
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.
Claudette Colvin - I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
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
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
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.
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.
Nelson Mandela - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
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.
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.
Brandon Gonzalez - Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle.
Sikemi Okunrinboye - Emancipation was as a result of dedication, hard work, speaking up, and speaking out.
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
Howard Thurman - Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Ralph Ellison - God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
O’brian Rosario - Juneteenth was a promise that was broken. Reconstruction failed and this country has continued to wage war on the Black body.
Tanesha Grant - Juneteenth symbolizes the hope that my children and grandchildren will be free. It’s Black joy and Black tenacity to survive.
Nikki Giovanni - Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
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.
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.
Dannese Mapanda - Juneteenth reminds me of Black freedom dreams—my freedom dreams.
Brandon Gonzalez - Since the development of racial capitalism—the use of African peoples as capital—our ancestors have always fought for freedom.
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.
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.
James Baldwin - Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—I, too, am America.
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.
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