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 TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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 think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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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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