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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Live Lord People Take Care
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Children Easy Sister
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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Freedom Giving God Heaven Stars Strength Time
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!
HARRIET TUBMAN

Heart Peace War
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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Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Conductor Road Slave
Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Country Farewell Hard Master Slave
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Deep Hell One Liner Slavery
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Beginning Change Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Passion Patience Remember Stars Strength World
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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Passenger Story
I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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Experience Grow Up Ignorance Liberty Neglect Weed
Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Fake Kill Mask Snake Wound
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Color Friendship Goodness Time Trust
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Dreamer Drean Inspirational One Liner
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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Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
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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Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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Convience Freedom Slave
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Lost Passenger Run Track Train
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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Blood Drop Freedom Slave Tears
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Condition Escape Freedom Slave
I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Lord See Steady
I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Land Strange Welcome
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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Cross Glory Hand Inspirational Person
You’ll be free or die!
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Die Freedom Slave
Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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Desert Lord Trouble
Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Motivational Stop Taste
I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start

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