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!
HARRIET TUBMANOh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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 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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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We out.
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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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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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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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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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