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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.

Harriet Tubman

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Experience Grow Up Ignorance Liberty Neglect Weed
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Always Children Easy Sister
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Forever Freedom Journey
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Conductor Road Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Lost Passenger Run Track Train
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Dreamer Drean Inspirational One Liner
Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Fake Kill Mask Snake Wound
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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Fight Liberty Lord Strength Time
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Deep Hell One Liner Slavery
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

God Lord Trust
The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Deliver Help Lord People Slave
It wasn’t me, it was 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,’ and He always did.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Passenger Story
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Change Person Slave
Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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Abroad Letter Love Prayer Watch

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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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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