I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
HARRIET TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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 looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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 knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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We out.
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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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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 saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
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