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 TUBMANWe 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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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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.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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