I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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You’ll be free or die!
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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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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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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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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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