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 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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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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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The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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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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I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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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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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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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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