Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the srength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.

I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

You'll be free or die!

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.