“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” –Harriet Tubman
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, 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.”
—Harriet Tubman
“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 1872