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Harriet Tubman

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
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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Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time
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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Live Lord People Take Care
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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Always Fight God Pray Strong
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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Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Always Children Easy Sister
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Heaven Light Slave
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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Condition Escape Freedom Slave
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Beginning Change Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Passion Patience Remember Stars Strength World
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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Passenger Story
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Conductor Road Slave
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Naked Slave
If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Dog Freedom Inspirational Shout Stop Taste Torch Wood
Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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Desert Lord Trouble
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
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
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Lost Passenger Run Track Train
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.
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Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
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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Heart Peace War
We out.
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One Liner Out
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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Cross Glory Hand Inspirational Person
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
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Fight Liberty Lord Strength Time
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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Blood Drop Freedom Slave Tears
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
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Slave

I can’t die but once.

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