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.
HARRIET TUBMANI looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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I can’t die but once.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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 most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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