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.
HARRIET TUBMANNow 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.
HARRIET TUBMANMarcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
HARRIET TUBMANGod’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.
HARRIET TUBMANOh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
HARRIET TUBMANSlavery is the next thing to hell.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
HARRIET TUBMANIf I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
HARRIET TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
HARRIET TUBMANI knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
HARRIET TUBMANI freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMANI said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMANTwasn’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.
HARRIET TUBMANI started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
HARRIET TUBMANI never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
HARRIET TUBMANWhen 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.
HARRIET TUBMAN