Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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.
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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 am at peace with God and all mankind.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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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 never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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.
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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 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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I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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