1. “God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.”
2. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
3. “If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.”
4. “I can’t die but once.”
5. “When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everthing.”
6. “Slavery is the next thing to hell.”
7. “I am at peace with God and all mankind.”
8. “Quakers almost good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.”
9. “I grew up like a neglected weed-ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”
10. “Never wound a snake; kill it.”
