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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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Fake Kill Mask Snake Wound
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Freedom Slave
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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Act Heaven Light Slave
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!
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Heart Peace War
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
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Forever Freedom Journey
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Conductor Road Slave
I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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Always Fight God Pray Strong
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
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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Live Lord People Take Care
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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God Lord Trust
Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Freedom Motivational Stop Taste
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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Condition Escape Freedom Slave
Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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Desert Lord Trouble
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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Fight Liberty Lord Strength Time
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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Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Always Children Easy Sister
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
If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
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Freedom Hungry Inspirational Scare Taste Tired
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.
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Dog Freedom Inspirational Shout Stop Taste Torch Wood
You’ll be free or die!
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Die Freedom Slave
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
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Dreamer Drean Inspirational One Liner
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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Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
I can’t die but once.
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Die One Liner Reality
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
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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Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave

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