I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMANI have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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 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.
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
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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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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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I can’t die but once.
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