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 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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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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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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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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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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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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