I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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 can’t die but once.
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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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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 looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
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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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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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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