Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

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

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

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

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.