I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.

Slavery is the next thing to hell.

I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

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

As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang -- one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

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

Twant me, 'twas the Lord. 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.