1097 – “Go where you’re celebrated, not where you’re tolerated.”

-anonymous

551 – “I never knew holding someone’s hand could feel so inviting, so familiar, and so new at the same time. Holding your hand, I celebrate it, I mark it on calendars.”

–Anita Krizzan

526 – “But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

–John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America

151 – “Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Everywhere around us, there are examples of people who are doing just that — who are celebrating the oneness of the human family.”

–Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town