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!
HARRIET TUBMANTwasn’t me, ’twas 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,’ an’ He always did.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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I can’t die but once.
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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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
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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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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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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 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 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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