I can’t die but once.
HARRIET TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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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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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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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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