"I suffered enough to make a man's heart ache."

"I had to be free."

"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."

"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 freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if they had known they were slaves."