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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Harriet Tubman

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 TUBMAN

Abroad Letter Love Prayer Watch
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave
Never wound a snake; kill it.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Fake Kill Mask Snake Wound
Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Motivational Stop Taste
I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Experience Grow Up Ignorance Liberty Neglect Weed
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time
You’ll be free or die!
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Die Freedom Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

God Lord Trust
If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Hungry Inspirational Scare Taste Tired
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
We out.
HARRIET TUBMAN

One Liner Out
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Deep Hell One Liner Slavery
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Lord See Steady
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Blood Drop Freedom Slave Tears

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

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