Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.”
I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Pears like I prayed all the time, ‘bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an’ groaned to the Lord.
We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there no-how. I can’t seem to get over that line.
There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for now man should take me alive.
God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for my liberty as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.