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 TUBMANDon’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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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 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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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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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