Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
HARRIET TUBMANIt 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
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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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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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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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