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.
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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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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You’ll be free or die!
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.
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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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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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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 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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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