Harriet Tubman

I would fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

I never lost courage, though I had many a scare, and I never lost a single passenger.

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

Every time I saw a white man, I was afraid of being carried away.

If my services do not place woman as man's equal, what do?

Never wound a snake; kill it.

I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free.

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

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.

I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; that sugar, sugar, sugar! And I’d go to the barrel and get some.

I would make a home for them in the North, and the Lord helping me, I would bring them all there.

I prayed all night long for my master till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me.

I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there.

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.

We must go free or die. And freedom's not bought with dust.

I'd rather live in a log cabin with freedom than in a mansion with slavery.

The Lord told me to come, and I came.

I would make a good general, for I am not afraid of anything.

I would have been a poor general, for I would have been afraid of nothing.