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.
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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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 can’t die but once.
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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 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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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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I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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 looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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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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