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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Harriet Tubman

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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Experience Grow Up Ignorance Liberty Neglect Weed
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Forever Freedom Journey
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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Heart Peace War
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Freedom Slave
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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God Lord Trust
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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Fight Liberty Lord Strength Time
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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Lord See Steady
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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Convience Freedom Slave
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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Always Fight God Pray Strong
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Enemy Time Vulnerable
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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Live Lord People Take Care
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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Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
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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Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
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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Country Farewell Hard Master Slave
The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Deliver Help Lord People Slave
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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Blood Drop Freedom Slave Tears

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

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