I can’t die but once.
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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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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We out.
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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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Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
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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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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