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 TUBMANI 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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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 looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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 can’t die but once.
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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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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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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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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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