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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

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Fight Liberty Lord Strength Time
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Enemy Time Vulnerable
Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.
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Country Farewell Hard Master Slave
God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Giving God Heaven Stars Strength Time
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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Freedom Land Strange Welcome
You’ll be free or die!
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Die Freedom 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.
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Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
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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Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
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
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Conductor Road Slave
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Forever Freedom Journey
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Color Friendship Goodness Time Trust
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
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 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.
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Passenger Story

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.

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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.

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