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.
HARRIET TUBMANTwasn’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.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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.
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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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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.
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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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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 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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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 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 can’t die but once.
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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