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 TUBMANNever wound a snake; kill it.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Twasn’t me, ’twas 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,’ an’ He always did.
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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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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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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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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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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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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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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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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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