Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.