I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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 am at peace with God and all mankind.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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 can’t die but once.
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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
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It wasn’t me, it was 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,’ and He always did.
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Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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 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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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 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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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.
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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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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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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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