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Harriet Tubman

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Passenger Story
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Deep Hell One Liner Slavery
Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Freedom Motivational Stop Taste
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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God Mankind Peace
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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Country Farewell Hard Master Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Abroad Letter Love Prayer Watch
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
The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Deliver Help Lord People Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
I 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.
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Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Enemy Time Vulnerable
I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Fight God Pray Strong
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
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Change Person Slave
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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Freedom Land Strange Welcome

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