Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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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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