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 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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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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 looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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 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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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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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I can’t die but once.
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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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