"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."

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Source : Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

Harriet Tubman

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“The cost of leadership is self-interest.”
“Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.”
“The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow!”
“In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.”
“Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!”
“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.16, Penguin
“Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.”
“Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.”

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