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.
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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You’ll be free or die!
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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 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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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 can’t die but once.
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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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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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We out.
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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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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