It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans . . . Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy.
~ Florence Luscomb
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person, now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything. The sun come like gold through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
~ Harriet Tubman