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 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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If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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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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.
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I can’t die but once.
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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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.
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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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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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