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.
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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I can’t die but once.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of 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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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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 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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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.
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