Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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.
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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.
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I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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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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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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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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I can’t die but once.
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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