70 Quotes by Harriet Tubman

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 now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

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.

Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

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.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.