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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.

Harriet Tubman

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

God Lord Trust
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Change Person Slave
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Freedom Slave
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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Always Fight God Pray Strong
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Conductor Road Slave
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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Cross Glory Hand Inspirational Person
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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Dog Freedom Inspirational Shout Stop Taste Torch Wood
I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.
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Blood Drop Freedom Slave Tears
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Forever Freedom Journey
If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
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Freedom Hungry Inspirational Scare Taste Tired
Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Freedom Motivational Stop Taste
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.
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Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
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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Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
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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Act Heaven Light Slave
Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Fake Kill Mask Snake Wound
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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Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time
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.
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Condition Escape Freedom Slave
I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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Experience Grow Up Ignorance Liberty Neglect Weed
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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Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
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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Live Lord People Take Care
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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Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
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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Heart Peace War
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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Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Naked Slave
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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Lord See Steady
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Always Children Easy Sister
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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Passenger Story

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