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.
HARRIET TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
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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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The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
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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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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 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 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 would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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