I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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We out.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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 was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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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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Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I can’t die but once.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
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