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 said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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 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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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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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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We out.
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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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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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