"I was nothing but a poor old woman; but I knew how to pray, and I knew how to work."

"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if they had known they were slaves."

"I had a vision. I saw the Lord reaching down and taking hold of me, and he said, 'Come, daughter, I'm going to carry you through.'"

"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; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for…"

"The Lord told me to go, and I went. I ain't never been sorry."