These quotes appeared on Īssociated Press contributed to this post. on to included President Biden signing the legislation. I had reasoned this out in my mind there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death if I could not have one, I would have the other for no man should take me alive. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.įreedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. I was a stranger in a strange land.įreedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. Today on Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom. The goal of this page is to spread the awareness of freedom through thoughtful qoutes. In honor of Juneteenth, 12 quotes about freedom that speak to the importance of remembering the past in order to push for a more equitable future.įreeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. That was also about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Southern states. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas - two months after the Confederacy had surrendered. “This is a day of profound weight and profound power, a day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take,” Biden said. The House voted 415-14 on Wednesday to send the bill to Biden, while the Senate passed the bill unanimously the day before.
President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday establishing a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, saying he believes it will go down as one of the greatest honors he has as president.īiden signed into law a bill to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday.
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