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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.

Harriet Tubman

Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
HARRIET TUBMAN

Desert Lord Trouble
The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Deliver Help Lord People Slave
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Color Friendship Goodness Time Trust
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
HARRIET TUBMAN

God Mankind Peace
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Convience Freedom Slave
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
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
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Forever Freedom Journey
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Deep Hell One Liner Slavery
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Hungry Inspirational Scare Taste Tired
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Always Children Easy Sister
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Change Person Slave
Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
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Heart Peace War
I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Experience Grow Up Ignorance Liberty Neglect Weed
Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Fake Kill Mask Snake Wound

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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