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.
HARRIET TUBMANI prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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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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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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!
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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We out.
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The 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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I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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