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.
HARRIET TUBMANI prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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In 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.
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I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.
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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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I can’t die but once.
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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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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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It wasn’t me, it was 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,’ and He always did.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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