"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."
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Activists from the United StatesCivil rights activistsAbolitionistsAfrican AmericansMethodists from the United States
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As quoted in Women's Words : The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (1996) by Mary Biggs, p. 2
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (c. March 1822 – 10 March 1913), also known as Moses, was an African-American abolitionist.
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