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.
HARRIET TUBMANMarcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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.
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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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I can’t die but once.
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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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 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 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 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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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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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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