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 TUBMANMost of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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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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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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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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 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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You’ll be free or die!
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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It wasn’t me, it was 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,’ and He always did.
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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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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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Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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