Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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It wasn’t me, it was 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,’ and He always did.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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.
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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 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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