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.
HARRIET TUBMANI started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I can’t die but once.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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We out.
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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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 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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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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