The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
HARRIET TUBMANMarcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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 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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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