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.
HARRIET TUBMANRead 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Twasn’t me, ’twas 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,’ an’ He always did.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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 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 can’t die but once.
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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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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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We out.
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You’ll be free or die!
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