Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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.
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You’ll be free or die!
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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 said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
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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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God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
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Twasn’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.
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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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 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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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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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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