Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
HARRIET TUBMANI grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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We out.
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I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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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 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 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 am at peace with God and all mankind.
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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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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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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 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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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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