I can’t die but once.
HARRIET TUBMANIf 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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We out.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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