I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMANNow 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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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 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 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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We out.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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You’ll be free or die!
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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 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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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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I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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