Harriet Tubman quotes - page 2

Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! (Harriet Tubman)
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
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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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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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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You'll be free or die!
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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.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
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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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