I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
HARRIET TUBMANEvery great dream begins with a dreamer.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
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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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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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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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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 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 am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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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 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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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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