Joe Biden

I don’t come here today to only commemorate the past. I come here because we know the good Lord isn’t done with us yet.

Democrats and Republicans came together in overwhelming numbers memorialize this profound moment in American history.

Folks, darkness can hide much but can erase nothing, and only with truth can come justice and healing.

I played a role in changing names of all those military camps with names tied to slavery.

I took the view as president, we need to be honest about our history — especially in the face of ongoing efforts to erase our history.

Some say ... it doesn't deserve to be a federal holiday. They don't want to remember.

Under President Joe Biden, the United States intervened to also argue that the Tennessee law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

As a child growing up in Texas, she and her family would celebrate Juneteenth. On Juneteenth 1939, when she was 12 years old, a white mob torched her family home. But such hate never stopped her, any more than it stopped the vast majority…

Darkness can hide much but can erase nothing.

What are we doing now? Reinstating those names.

Still today, some say to me and you that this doesn't deserve to be a federal holiday. They don't want to remember...the moral stain of slavery.

The events of Juneteenth are of monumental importance to America's story.

They were not 'peaceful' — despite minimal accounts of physical violence by protesters, and negligible accounts of property damage.

I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations.

Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.

This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans...

They’re not asking us to do their jobs – they’re asking us to do our jobs, to protect our nation, in our time, now.

Our troops don’t wear a uniform that says I’m a Democrat, or I’m a Republican – it says, I’m an American.

Every generation has to fight to maintain that democracy.

Why didn’t they run against me then? Because I would have beaten them.

We’re going to be able to beat this.

This day is the 10th anniversary of the loss of my son Beau, who spent a year in Iraq. And to be honest, it's a hard day.

Cancer touches us all.

So everyone who came here today to grieve with grief in your heart, please know: you're not alone.

His legacy lives on.