I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
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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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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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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.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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 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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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