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.
HARRIET TUBMANI started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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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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It wasn’t me, it was 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,’ and He always did.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
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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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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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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 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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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.
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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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