I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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You’ll be free or die!
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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 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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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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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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