I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMANI never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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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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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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 was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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We out.
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