Top 25 Quotes About The Underground Railroad
#1. Dear Artie: "The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. "Roy
John Pearce
#2. 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.
Harriet Tubman
#3. The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#5. That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne.
John Pearce
#6. Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#7. I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
#8. The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin.
Isabel Gillies
#9. Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
Margaret Atwood
#10. I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.
John F. Kennedy
#11. No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.
Francesco Petrarca
#12. There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
Francis Crick
#13. It's never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones.
Steve Maraboli
#14. It is by studying little things, that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Gretchen Rubin
#15. Caring for people often takes the form of concern for the quality of their stories, not for their feelings.
Daniel Kahneman
#16. The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.
Michael Ian Black
#17. If you wish to overcome any difficulty, resolved to endure adversity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.
Hayden Carruth
#19. Shall Earth no more inspire thee,
Thou lonely dreamer now?
Emily Bronte
#20. That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.
Jack Nicholson
#21. To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover ...
Martin Buber
#22. Amy's story could have gone a million other ways, but she met me, and bad things happened.
Gillian Flynn
#23. There are times when God draws us into the wilderness but He does so for a purpose and never with the intention that we make permanent camp there.
Katherine J. Walden
#24. Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.
Charles Spurgeon
