Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
HARRIET TUBMANI looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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 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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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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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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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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You’ll be free or die!
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
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I can’t die but once.
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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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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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