Underground Railroad Quotes

• Había cruzado la línea con la que tanto había soñado. Era libre, pero no había nadie que me diera la bienvenida a la tierra de la libertad.

  Harriet Tubman

  Freedom, Land, Slavery

  "Harriet, el Moisés de su pueblo". Libro de Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Land, Railroads, Committees

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.61, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Harriet Tubman

  Strength, Fighting, Long

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• 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.

  Harriet Tubman

  Women, Eight, Years

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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

  Harriet Tubman

  Track, Railroads, Lost

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• Para mí, ver nuestra historia contada de esta manera, los que se rebelaron, los que se sublevaron, los revolucionarios, me entusiasmó. Ver esta historia del Ferrocarril Subterráneo... y esa es una parte tan orgullosa de nuestra historia que no muchos de nosotros conocemos, donde estos hombres y mujeres valientes, eran héroes, realmente ayudaron a derribar el sistema de esclavitud simplemente huyendo.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Running, Hero, Men

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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

  Harriet Tubman

  Hands, Black History, African American

  "Harriet, el Moisés de su pueblo". Libro de Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Effort, Pioneers, Railroads

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• Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Safe, Canada

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• I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

  Harriet Tubman

  Railroads, Conductor

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• Afortunadamente, vengo de una madre activista, así que no tuve que depender de los libros de historia. Los libros de historia no nos enseñan nada sobre el Ferrocarril Subterráneo, aparte de Harriet Tubman. Así que sabía más sobre el tema pero, obviamente, tuve que profundizar y ampliar mis conocimientos e investigar mucho una vez que me hice cargo de este proyecto. Tuve como dos meses para investigar antes de empezar a rodar, que no es mucho, y seguí investigando durante los cinco meses que duró el rodaje.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Mother, Book, Two

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).

  Ally Carter

  Sexy, Art, Tunnels

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

  Alice Hoffman

  Thinking, Railroads, Genius

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom."

  Aisha Hinds

  Thank God, Canada, Railroads

  Fuente: www.theaquarian.com

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