Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
HARRIET TUBMANI looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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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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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 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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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 looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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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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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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