Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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 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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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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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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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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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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 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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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