Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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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 can’t die but once.
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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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