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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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