FREE Black History Month Quote Templates

Alan Keyes: Stars & Stripes as Slavery Symbol Quote

Harriet Tubman: Fighting for Liberty Until the End Quote

Harriet Tubman: The Unyielding Journey to Freedom Quote

Kwame Nkrumah: Claiming Freedom as a Right Quote

Theodorea Regina Berry on Juneteenth's True Meaning Quote

John Lewis: Unity and Perseverance in America Quote

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Cost of True Liberty Quote

Coretta Scott King: Endless Struggle for Freedom Quote

Ella Fitzgerald: Love, Inspiration, and Perseverance Quote

Brandon Gonzalez: Mapping Global African Liberation Quote

Beyoncé: Spreading Love and Peace for Change Quote

Brandon Gonzalez: Ancestral Fight Against Racial Capitalism Quote

Pharrell Williams: A Call for an Inclusive Holiday Quote

Zoé Samudzi: Fighting for Our Worth Quote

Ilyasah Shabazz - We don't want to sit down and listen to these things, or to discuss them. But we have to.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Abraham Lincoln - I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

Brandon Gonzalez - Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle.

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.

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.

Nelson Mandela - No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

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

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.

Howard Thurman - Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

Dannese Mapanda - Juneteenth reminds me of Black freedom dreams—my freedom dreams.

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.

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.

Brandon Gonzalez - Since the development of racial capitalism—the use of African peoples as capital—our ancestors have always fought for freedom.

Fatimata Cham - Liberation lies within us and will not be formed from the current institutional structures we have in place for it never has.

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.

Richard Wright - We Black folk, our history, and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America.

Richard Wright - What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folk perish, America will perish.

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

Tatiana Glover - Juneteenth is another moment for me and my loved ones to build an archive of truth and experience of Black folks.

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.

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.

Frederick Douglass - Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

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.

Langston Hughes - I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.

Michelle Obama - There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

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.

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.

Theodorea Regina Berry - The proclamation notes that freedom shall not be repressed. This is what I believe to be the primary significance of Juneteenth.