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 TUBMANGod’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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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 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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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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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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Twasn’t me, ’twas 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,’ an’ He always did.
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We out.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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