I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. — Harriet Tubman · Smartyfair

I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman1822–1913 · activist · 1800s-1900s USAHarriet Tubman escaped slavery and then risked her life again and again, returning to the South to guide dozens of other enslaved people to freedom along a secret network called the Underground Railroad.2 quotes

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She led people to freedom and never lost a single one.

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How sure this is: 48% sureLots of sources credit Harriet Tubman with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
What turned up: Popularly attributed to Tubman; Wikiquote's own citation traces it to Charles Blockson's The Underground Railroad (1987), a secondary compilation, not to Bradford's 1886 'Harriet, the Moses of Her People' as previously recorded — the phrase is absent from Bradford's actual 1886 text.
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