Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
HARRIET TUBMANI am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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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 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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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 looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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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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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 can’t die but once.
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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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