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 was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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.
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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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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 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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When 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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