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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.

Harriet Tubman

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Live Lord People Take Care
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!
HARRIET TUBMAN

Heart Peace War
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Convience Freedom Slave
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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Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Children Easy Sister
I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Fight God Pray Strong
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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Lord See Steady
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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Country Farewell Hard Master Slave
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Change Person Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Freedom Giving God Heaven Stars Strength Time
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Fight Liberty Lord Strength Time
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Conductor Road Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Heaven Light Slave
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Lost Passenger Run Track Train
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
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 TUBMAN

Condition Escape Freedom Slave
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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Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time
I can’t die but once.
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Die One Liner Reality
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Blood Drop Freedom Slave Tears
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Color Friendship Goodness Time Trust
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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Cross Glory Hand Inspirational Person
I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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Experience Grow Up Ignorance Liberty Neglect Weed
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 TUBMAN

Dog Freedom Inspirational Shout Stop Taste Torch Wood
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Dreamer Drean Inspirational One Liner
I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Act Heaven Light Slave

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