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.
HARRIET TUBMANThe good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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 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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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 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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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