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.
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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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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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 am at peace with God and all mankind.
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I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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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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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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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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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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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