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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
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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 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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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You’ll be free or die!
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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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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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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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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