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 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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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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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 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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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 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 had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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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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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