I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
HARRIET TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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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 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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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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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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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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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You’ll be free or die!
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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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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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 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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