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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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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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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.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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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 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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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I can’t die but once.
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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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