The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
HARRIET TUBMANI started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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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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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We out.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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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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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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