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 TUBMANEvery great dream begins with a dreamer.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I can’t die but once.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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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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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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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