Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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We out.
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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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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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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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