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- No one learns to hate others by birth.. No one is born with discrimination against colours.. They learn it here… Let us not teach our coming generations the things that divide us but teach them things that unite us… Warm wishes to you on Juneteenth.
- 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
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. – Abraham Lincoln.
- 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
- Where annual elections end where slavery begins. – John Quincy Adams.
- I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. — Claudette Colvin
- We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or white. It’s our basic human right. — Aretha Franklin
- Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.- Coretta Scott King, human rights activist and leader
- 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
- I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. – Frederick Douglas.
