I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
HARRIET TUBMANI freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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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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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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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.
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We out.
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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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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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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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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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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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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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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