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.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I can’t die but once.
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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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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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You’ll be free or die!
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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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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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
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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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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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
HARRIET TUBMAN