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.
HARRIET TUBMANQuakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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 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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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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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
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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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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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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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I can’t die but once.
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