Top 32 What Was Harriet Tubman Quotes
#1. Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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#2. Harriet Tubman was a spy for the United States of America Union Army during the Civil War. 9.
Stephen R. Daily
#3. 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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#4. I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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#5. 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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#7. I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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#8. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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#9. 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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#10. I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.
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#11. Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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#12. Almost two hundred years ago, Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom. And when they told her they didn't think they could, when they said they were too afraid, she pointed a gun at them and said" - Marjorie mimed a weapon in her grasp - "Go forward or die.
Anna Carey
#14. Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
Nikki Giovanni
#15. When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
Kathryn Lasky
#16. 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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#17. 'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
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#18. We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
Alice Walker
#19. There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.
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#20. 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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#23. The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.
Conan O'Brien
#24. I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.
Janelle Monae
#25. 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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#26. Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.
Sanford Biggers
#27. 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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#28. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
Nancy Gibbs
#29. 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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#30. I had crossed the line. 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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#31. In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no-how. I can't seem to get over that line.
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#32. 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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