I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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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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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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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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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I can’t die but once.
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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 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 most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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