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.
HARRIET TUBMANPears 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!
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I am at peace with God and all mankind.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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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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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 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 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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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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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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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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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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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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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