Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
HARRIET TUBMANFarewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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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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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 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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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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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