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 TUBMANI 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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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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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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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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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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