John Brown:
(Harriett) was "one of the bravest persons on this continent."

Frederick Douglass:
"Excepting John Brown...I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardship to serve our enslaved people..."


Thomas Garrett:
"I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God"

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary."

Wilber Henry Siebert
"Harriet Tubman, like John Mason, did not reckon the value of her own liberty in comparison with the liberty of others who had not tasted its sweets."