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 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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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You’ll be free or die!
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I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
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I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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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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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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 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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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