Slavery is the next thing to hell.
HARRIET TUBMANIf 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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 can’t die but once.
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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 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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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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I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.
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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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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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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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We out.
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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 good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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