I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
HARRIET TUBMANSlavery is the next thing to hell.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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I can’t die but once.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
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We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
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If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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You’ll be free or die!
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God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
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I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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