Free Quote Templates

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.

Fannie Lou Hamer - Nobody’s until everybody’s

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

Bernard Williams - There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

George Lorimer - You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to bed with satisfaction.

Mark Twain - Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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!

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.

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

Denise Brennan-Nelson - Someday is not a day of the week.

Elle Luna - Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all.

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.

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Light tomorrow with today.

Robert Orben - Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

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.

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

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

Marty Rubin - Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins.

D.L. Hughley - No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

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.

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.

Paulo Coelho - One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

Spencer Johnson - In one minute, you can change your attitude, and in that minute, you can change your entire day.

John Wooden - Make each day your masterpiece.

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

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

Steve Maraboli - When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

Lou Holtz - Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Mary Oliver - It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world.

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.

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.

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

John Wooden - Make today your masterpiece.

Dalai Lama - Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

George Washington Carver - Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.