Political Quotes

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

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 of you I’m looking at from this podium.

Juneteenth is a day of liberation, a day of remembrance and a day of celebration.

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.