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.
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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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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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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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 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 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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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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We out.
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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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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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