Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
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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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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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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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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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If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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We out.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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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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