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.
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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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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I 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.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
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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 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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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I can’t die but once.
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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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