Harriet Tubman Quotes

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  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, Torches, Want

  "It is Important to Have Black Faces on Dollars, but More Important to Get Dollars in Black Hands" by Dedrick Muhammad, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2016.

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  Todo gran sueño comienza con un soñador.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiración, Sueño, Pasión

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  I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

  Harriet Tubman

  Death, Freedom, Two

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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.

  Harriet Tubman

  Women, Eight, Years

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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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.

  Harriet Tubman

  Largo, Gente, Cuidado

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• Nunca hieras a una serpiente; mátala.

  Harriet Tubman

  Snakes, Political, African American

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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.

  Harriet Tubman

  Lord, Leading Me, Knows

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• Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

  Harriet Tubman

  Lord, Steady

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• I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all
  was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in
  de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.

  Harriet Tubman

  Dream, Home, Land

  Quoted in Sarah Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1969)

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• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  Harriet Tubman

  Freedom, Hands, Tree

  "Sarah H. Bradford". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• Slavery is the next thing to hell.

  Harriet Tubman

  Slavery, Next, Hell

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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."

  Harriet Tubman

  Ideas, Two, Liberty

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• I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

  Harriet Tubman

  Track, Railroads, Lost

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• Había cruzado la línea con la que tanto había soñado. Era libre, pero no había nadie que me diera la bienvenida a la tierra de la libertad.

  Harriet Tubman

  Freedom, Land, Slavery

  "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• 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

  Strength, Fighting, Long

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• 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.

  Harriet Tubman

  Beautiful, Dream, Flower

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• I am at peace with God and all mankind.

  Harriet Tubman

  Peace With God, Mankind

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• I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Men, White Man

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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.

  Harriet Tubman

  Rain, Fall, Gun

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• I can't die but once.

  Harriet Tubman

  Dies, I Can

  "The Underground Railroad". Book by Charles L. Blockson, 1987.

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• Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

  Harriet Tubman

  Friends, Quaker

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• Crecí como una mala hierba: ignorante de la libertad, sin experiencia de ella.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Marijuana, Ignorant

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• Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden
  on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

  Harriet Tubman

  Government, Trying, Naked

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• I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

  Harriet Tubman

  Railroads, Underground Railroad, Conductor

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• Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

  Harriet Tubman

  Lord, Pears

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