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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.

Harriet Tubman

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
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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Freedom Hungry Inspirational Scare Taste Tired
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Freedom Slave
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
I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
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Heaven Light Slave
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
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
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Change Person Slave
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
Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Freedom Motivational Stop Taste
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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Condition Escape Freedom Slave
We out.
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One Liner Out
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Passenger Story
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Dog Freedom Inspirational Shout Stop Taste Torch Wood
Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Fake Kill Mask Snake Wound

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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