I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMANI had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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 can’t die but once.
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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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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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 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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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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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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