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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Harriet Tubman

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time
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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Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
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
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Abroad Letter Love Prayer Watch
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Change Person Slave
We out.
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One Liner Out
I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Fight God Pray Strong
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Conductor Road Slave
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Naked Slave
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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Condition Escape Freedom Slave
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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Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
HARRIET TUBMAN

God Mankind Peace
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Enemy Time Vulnerable
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Lost Passenger Run Track Train
I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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Experience Grow Up Ignorance Liberty Neglect Weed

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