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.
HARRIET TUBMANIf 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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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 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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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 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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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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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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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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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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