Juneteenth Independence Day

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or day:

    “The Indian’s intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that I care. Only, if such is God’s will, and Fate and Evolution—let there be God!”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)