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.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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 out.
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I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
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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 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 can’t die but once.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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