The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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 can’t die but once.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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 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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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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We out.
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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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