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 TUBMANEvery great dream begins with a dreamer.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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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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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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 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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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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We out.
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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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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 am at peace with God and all mankind.
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It 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.
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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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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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