Books Quote by Jurnee Smollett-Bell

The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of us know…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

The Underground Railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement. And it's a great example of when we work together, what we can go…

— Misha Green

“But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they reach toward…

— Pearl S. Buck

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

As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of Sesame Street…

— Jenna Blum

The story of the Underground Railroad is a thriller. These are people who are basically in a heist movie, and it's the most precious…

— Misha Green

For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited me. Seeing…

— Jurnee Smollett

“-How long you been with the rail road now? -Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done learned after…

— August Wilson

“How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist’s print, not logical argument,…

— Sarah Lewis

The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very much the…

— Jamelle Bouie

“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”

— Carter G. Woodson

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza