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.
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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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 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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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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I can’t die but once.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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 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 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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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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