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.
HARRIET TUBMANIn my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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 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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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 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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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.
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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 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 can’t die but once.
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