Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
HARRIET TUBMANSlavery is the next thing to hell.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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I can’t die but once.
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We out.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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You’ll be free or die!
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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 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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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 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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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