Slavery is the next thing to hell.
HARRIET TUBMANSlavery is the next thing to hell.
HARRIET TUBMANI can’t die but once.
HARRIET TUBMANGod’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 TUBMANDon’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
HARRIET TUBMANI prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
HARRIET TUBMANIf 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 TUBMANI grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMANI am at peace with God and all mankind.
HARRIET TUBMANI had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
HARRIET TUBMANThe 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 TUBMANI 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 TUBMANNow 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.
HARRIET TUBMANIn 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 TUBMANI started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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 TUBMANOh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
HARRIET TUBMAN