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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.

Harriet Tubman

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Fight Liberty Lord Strength Time
I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Change Person Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave
The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Deliver Help Lord People Slave
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Enemy Time Vulnerable
I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Lord See Steady
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Lost Passenger Run Track Train
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Slave
When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Cross Glory Hand Inspirational Person
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 TUBMAN

Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Land Strange Welcome
I can’t die but once.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Die One Liner Reality
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 TUBMAN

Condition Escape Freedom Slave

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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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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