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 TUBMANIf I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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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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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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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
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