Best Harriet Tubman Quotes
1. "I grew up like a neglected weed—ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented…"
3. "Why, the language down there in the far South is just as different from ours in Maryland as you think. They laughed when they heard me talk and I couldn't understand them no how."
5. "We was the fools, and the was the wise men; but we wasn't fools enough to go down the high road in the broad daylight."
7. "We would rather stay in our native land if we could be as free there as we are here."
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9. "..and I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that's what I've always prayed for ever since."
11. "God's time is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free."
13. "There was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."
15. "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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17. "I was 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."
19. "God won't let Master Lincoln beat the South until he does right thing."
21. "Suppose there was an awful big snake down there on the floor. He bites you. Folks all scared, because you may die. You send for doctor to cut the bite; but the snake rolled up there, and while doctor is doing it, he bites you again. The doctor cuts out that bite; but while he's doing it, the snake springs up and bites you again, and so he keeps doing it, till you kill him. That's what Master Lincoln ought to know."
23. "From Christmas till March, I worked as I could, and I prayed through all the long nights—I groaned and prayed for ole master: 'Oh Lord, convert master!' 'Oh Lord, change dat man's heart!' 'Pears like I prayed all the time."
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26. "To be sure, deep slumbers settle down upon them as soon as they are seated, which continue undisturbed till the congregation is dismissed; but they have done their best, and who can doubt that they receive a blessing."
28. "I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know no better. They acts up to the light they have."
30. "I'm going to Mr. ——'s office, and I ain't going to leave there, and I ain't going to eat or drink till I get enough money to take me down after the old people."
32. "After that [the Fugitive Slave Act], I wouldn't trust Uncle Sam with my people no longer, but I brought 'em all clear off to Canada."
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35. "I never see such a sight…one woman brought two pigs, a white one and a black one; we took 'em all on board, named the white pig Beauregard and the black pig Jeff Davis."
37. "I often think, Missus, of things I wish I had told you before you wrote the book."
39. "I just removed my father's trial to a higher court, and brought him off to Canada."
41. "What did you say to me this morning? You said, 'We hadn't got nothing to eat in the house and what did I say to you? I said 'I've got a rich Father!'"
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43. "Now, Missus, don't you think this ole head that done the navigation' down in Egypt can do the navigatin' up here in New York?"
45. "I go to prepare a place for you."
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