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Juneteenth Quotes: Best Happy Juneteenth 2023 Quotes with Images

Juneteenth Quotes: Best Inspirational Happy Juneteenth 2023 Quotes! It’s time to celebrate Happy Juneteenth Day 2023. If you want to update your status on social media with the best motivational Juneteenth Day Quotes? This is the right palace for you. The “Juneteenth” is a very special celebration day for the United States people, who like Freedom. Here below, is the best collection of Juneteenth Day Quotes 2023.

Juneteenth Quotes 2023
Juneteenth Quotes 2023

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What is Juneteenth?

According to National Geographic, Juneteenth (which is a combination of the words “June” and “nineteenth”) is sometimes called America’s “second Independence Day” by some people in the US. This day is an occasion for u.s. citizens to celebrate autonomy and equality. It has been celebrated by African-Americans since the late 1800s.

Happy Juneteenth 2023 Quotes:

“Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.” — Malcolm X

“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho’ we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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 why we need this holiday.” — Al Edwards

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” — Desmond Tutu

“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.” — Maya Angelou

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

“I knew then and I know now when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.” — Claudette Colvin

“As Black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences — experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as Black women is take the worst situations and create from that point.” — Viola Davis

“We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or white. It’s our basic human right.” — Aretha Franklin

Happy juneteenth 2023 Quotes
Happy juneteenth 2023 Quotes

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

“If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.” — James Baldwin

“God’s time [Emancipation] 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.” — Harriet Tubman

“Freedom is not something that one person can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.” — Kwame Nkrumah

“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” — Bayard Rustin

“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.” — Nikki Giovanni

“I find freedom sexy. I find freedom so sexy, I can’t even explain it to you. You wake up every day and feel like you can do anything.” — Prince

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

“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 civilization of your own.” — Marcus Garvey

Juneteenth Quotes
Juneteenth Quotes

“We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.” ― Zoé Samudzi

“I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.” — Malcolm X

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

“I just don’t know how to describe it. I just feel like it’s the beginning of something great, and I want to be a part of it.” — Opal Lee

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” — Booker T. Washington

“When day comes we step out of the shade / Aflame and unafraid / The new dawn blooms as we free it / For there is always light / If only we’re brave enough to see it / If only we’re brave enough to be it.” — Amanda Gorman

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” ― Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“Movements don’t die because struggle doesn’t die.” — Harry Belafonte

“Hope is not the absence of despair; it is the ability to come back to our purpose, again and again.” — Alicia Garza, “The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart”

“It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.” — Malcolm X

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” — Nelson Mandela

“You cannot take your freedoms for granted. Just like generations who have come before you, you have to do your part to preserve and protect those freedoms.” — Michelle Obama

“No matter who you are or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love, America is a place where you can write your own destiny.” — Barack Obama

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“But if you know what life is worth / You would look for yours on Earth / And now a you see the light / You stand up for your right.” — Bob Marley, “Get Up Stand Up”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Juneteenth Quotes Pic 2023
Juneteenth Quotes Pic 2023

“Nothing can stop the power of a committed and determined people to make a difference in our society.” — John Lewis, “Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change”

“Let us not assume for one moment that our work is done, the struggle for equal justice continues.” — Fred David Gray

“Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won.” — John Lewis, “Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change”

“Remember this in the darkest moments, when the work doesn’t seem worth it, and change seems just out of reach: out of our willingness to push through comes a tremendous power.” — Stacey Abrams

“I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there’s no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.'” — Claudette Colvin

“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Our strength lies in the fact that we are supported by the majority of Americans. And our motivation lies in our obligation to make sure their voices are heard and acknowledged by those who set public policy in this country.” — Faye Wattleton

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