Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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 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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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 started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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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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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 can’t die but once.
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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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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You’ll be free or die!
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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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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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