Harriet Tubman Quotes

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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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Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!

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I grew up like a neglected weed—ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

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I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'.

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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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I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

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I had reasoned this out in my mind. There were two things I had a right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive.

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Children, 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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I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

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'Twant 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," and he always did.

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