Harriet Tubman

"I am not afraid of death."

"The greatest power is the power to choose."

"I have spent my years helping others to freedom."

"I ask you not to pity me, but to fight alongside me."

"The North Star has always been my light."

"I have learned that strength comes from faith."

"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."

"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 had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming on my part of the Underground Railroad."

"God's time is always right on time."

"I can't die but once. I'd be willing to shed every drop of blood I have."

"The greatest legacy I could leave my people is my example of perseverance."

"I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."

"I have now initiated myself into the underground railroad and I have, as I believe, effectually dried up the fountain of slavery."

"Slavery is the next thing to hell."

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

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."

"I look at my hands to see if I'm black or white. I decide I'm black and I'm going to stay black."

"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person."

"I would make a home in the North, and would work until I had earned money enough to buy my mother."

"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."

"Some nights I would lie awake and plan an escape."

"I freed a thousand slaves; I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."

"Do the best you can where you are, with what you have."

"I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death."

"The subject of the quality of the poor is of utmost consequence."

"I am determined to live by faith in the promises contained in the Holy Bible."

"My mothers' suffering most in my mind. But when I thought of her, I could not turn back."

"I can hear the whistle of a train that was carrying some of my companions away forever."

"I felt as if I should die if I did not see him."