I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
HARRIET TUBMANI think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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You’ll be free or die!
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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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 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 can’t die but once.
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of 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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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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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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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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