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.
Speech at a suffrage convention (1896), as quoted in Women's Words (1996)
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Harriet Tubman quotes
c. 1822-1913 ยท Presidents and world leaders
Escaped slave who led others to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
3 quotes, 3 traced to where Tubman said or wrote them.
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.
As told to Sarah Bradford in Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886), modernized spelling
I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom.
As told to Sarah Bradford in Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886), modernized spelling