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.
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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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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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 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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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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