“I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.

I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.

I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.

Slavery is the next thing to hell.

I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

We out.

Every experience is really just a lesson in disguise. Don’t let it go to waste.

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

I find meditative partnership with my horse, being one with another being is such as exhilarating experience

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

Your parents don’t teach you how to heal, experience does.

All the ups and downs you’ve experienced in your life were only preparing you for what’s to come.  

You experience a lot of new things by being silent.