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. |
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation. |
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. |
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. |
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. |
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 looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory ober eberything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and ober de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. |
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. |
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. |
Never wound a snake; kill it. |
Quakers almost as good as colored.... They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. |
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. |
You'll be free or die! |