Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
HARRIET TUBMANYou’ll be free or die!
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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 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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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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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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 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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