I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMANI had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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 prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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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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I can’t die but once.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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 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 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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If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of 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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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