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.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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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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 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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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We out.
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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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