I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
HARRIET TUBMANMost of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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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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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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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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