I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
HARRIET TUBMANEvery great dream begins with a dreamer.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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We out.
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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 two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Twasn’t me, ’twas 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,’ an’ He always did.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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.
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