June 12 is Loving Day, which marks the day when the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1967, unanimously ruled in favor of Mildred and Richard Loving, and made states’ laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional.
• “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
• “When you are dealing with humanity as a family there’s no question of integration or intermarriage. It’s just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.” – Malcolm X
• “I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” – unknown
• “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Theresa
• “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within” – James Baldwin
• “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
—Spiritual Passages