The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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 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 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.
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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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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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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 out.
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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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I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.
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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 can’t die but once.
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