In 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.
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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I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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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We out.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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 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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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.
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