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.
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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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 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 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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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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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 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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You’ll be free or die!
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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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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 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 was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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