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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

Harriet Tubman

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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Abroad Letter Love Prayer Watch
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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Country Farewell Hard Master Slave
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Color Friendship Goodness Time Trust
I can’t die but once.
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Die One Liner Reality
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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Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
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.
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Heaven Light Slave
Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Condition Escape Freedom Slave
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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Convience Freedom Slave
Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Freedom Motivational Stop Taste
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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Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
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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Act Heaven Light Slave
I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.
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Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
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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Cross Glory Hand Inspirational Person
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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Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave
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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Always Fight God Pray Strong
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Deep Hell One Liner Slavery
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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Live Lord People Take Care
I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Dreamer Drean Inspirational One Liner
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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God Lord Trust
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Change Person Slave
You’ll be free or die!
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Die Freedom Slave
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Naked Slave
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Enemy Time Vulnerable
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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Beginning Change Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Passion Patience Remember Stars Strength World
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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Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Conductor Road Slave

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

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