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.
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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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 most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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