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.
HARRIET TUBMANThe 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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 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 am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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 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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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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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