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.
HARRIET TUBMANWe 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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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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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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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 freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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