Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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I can’t die but once.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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