Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. – Harriet Tubman
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. – Harriet Tubman
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. – Harriet Tubman
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. – Harriet Tubman
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. – Tony Campolo