"I'd rather live in a log cabin with freedom than in a mansion with slavery."

"I prayed all night long for my master till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me."

"I would fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me."

"The Lord will make a way where there seems to be no way."

"I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there."