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.
HARRIET TUBMANIn 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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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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You’ll be free or die!
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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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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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We out.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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