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.
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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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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 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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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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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I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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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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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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