I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMANIf 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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It wasn’t me, it was 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,’ and He always did.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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 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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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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 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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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