Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
HARRIET TUBMANQuakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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