I can’t die but once.
HARRIET TUBMANWhen I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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You’ll be free or die!
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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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