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.
HARRIET TUBMANSlavery is the next thing to hell.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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Twasn’t me, ’twas the Lord! I always told Him, ‘I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,’ an’ He always did.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
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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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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