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.
Frederick Douglass - Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
James Brown - Say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fannie Lou Hamer - Nobody’s until everybody’s
Michelle Obama - There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
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.
Abraham Lincoln - Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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.
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