Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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Twasn’t me, ’twas the Lord! I always told Him, ‘I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,’ an’ He always did.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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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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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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We out.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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 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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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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