Never wound a snake, kill it.
Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- Harriet Tubman, ( c.1820-1913), US abolitionist, emancipator; Moses of Her People escaped slavery at the age 25, but returned to the South 19 times to spirit 300 people to Canada on the Underground Railroad.