I can’t die but once.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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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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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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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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We out.
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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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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