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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.

Harriet Tubman

Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Condition Escape Freedom Slave
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 TUBMAN

Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Conductor Road Slave
I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Act Heaven Light Slave
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Fight Liberty Lord Strength Time
I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Live Lord People Take Care
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Fight God Pray Strong
Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Country Farewell Hard Master Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
HARRIET TUBMAN

Desert Lord Trouble
I 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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Land Strange Welcome
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Blood Drop Freedom Slave Tears
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Beginning Change Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Passion Patience Remember Stars Strength World

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