Juneteenth National Holiday

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or holiday:

    “Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    “You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)