(Laughter.) Or 94 years old, but I - (laughter). Opal is - you won’t believe it - she’s 49 years old. Grandmother of the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.Īnd Ms. She told me she loved me, and I believed it.
I had the honor of meeting her in Nevada more than a year ago. As my mother would say, “God love her.” (Applause.) I hope this is the beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another.Īnd we’re blessed - we’re blessed to mark the day in the presence of Ms. I’m especially pleased that we showed the nation that we can come together as Democrats and Republicans to commemorate this day with the overwhelming bipartisan support of the Congress. I am grateful to the members of Congress here today - in particular, the Congressional Black Caucus, who did so much to make this day possible. And the first new national holiday since the creation of Martin Luther King Holiday nearly four decades ago.
As the Vice President noted, a holiday that will join the others of our national celebrations: our independence, our laborers who built this nation, our servicemen and women who served and died in its defense. You know, today, we consecrate Juneteenth for what it ought to be, what it must be: a national holiday. This is a day of profound - in my view - profound weight and profound power.Ī day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take - what I’ve long called “America’s original sin.”Īt the same time, I also remember the extraordinary capacity to heal, and to hope, and to emerge from the most painful moments and a bitter, bitter version of ourselves, but to make a better version of ourselves. Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation, and a promise of a brighter morning to come. A day that reflects what the Psalm tell us: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” A day, as you all know - I’m going to repeat some of what was said - that became known as Juneteenth.
HEAL MEANING FREE
One hundred and fifty-six years ago - one hundred and fifty-six years - June 19th, 1865 - John, thanks for being here - a major general of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and free the last enslaved Americans in Texas from bondage. Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy.THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.'īut is this wishful thinking which underestimates misfortune and injustice? Or, in forging stories to create new goals, can we, indeed, use suffering to our strength? 'What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. For life can have meaning in all circumstances and since we are free to search for it, we should. Frankl’s ‘will to meaning’ was inspired by Søren Kierkegaard’s philosophy and opposed Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘will to power’ and Sigmund Freud’s ‘will to pleasure’ as fundamental human drives.Īccording to Frankl, then, our main motivation is to find meaning, however miserable suffering seems to be to us at its lowest. That is to say, at the moment we create personal stories of grief, which engender newfound purpose from our pain, we are healed: and suffering ‘ceases to be suffering’. Frankl (pictured) argued that our suffering, which is inherent to human experience, can be transcended if we will to find meaning within it. During his life, as a neurologist, a psychiatrist, and an existential therapist, he searched for ways to overcome his suffering and found a solution in the notion of meaning.
He, therefore, knew a thing or two about suffering. Frankl, MD, PhD was a Holocaust survivor.
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