I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
HARRIET TUBMANNow 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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 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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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.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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I can’t die but once.
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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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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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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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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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.
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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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