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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
  • I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. -- Harriet Tubman
  • 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
  • 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
  • I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius. -- Alice Hoffman
  • 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
  • The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin. -- Isabel Gillies
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