Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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 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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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 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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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 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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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