Top 20 Quotes About 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. 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
#3. 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
#4. I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Learn from the past but use the present to create the future.
Auliq Ice
#13. A good interview is one that makes you feel interviewer was good who gifted the thoughts for years to come, those still lingering with several questions that need to be answered and scenarios that weren't touched upon. And yet you receive an offer.
Santosh Avvannavar
#15. The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.
Frederick Lenz
#16. God will only reveal Himself to you when you begin to regard His people
Sunday Adelaja
#17. The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
James Arness
#18. Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to the difference in the relationship.
John C. Broger
#19. Our bodies form a symbol, I think, as powerful as one of Hal's - and it occurs to me that the most meaningful symbols of all must be based on all the different ways two people can embrace.
Neal Shusterman