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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
I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
— Harriet Tubman
I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
— Harriet Tubman
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.
— Janelle Monae
Harriet Tubman was a spy for the United States of America Union Army during the Civil War. 9.
— Stephen R. Daily
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
— Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.
— Sanford Biggers
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
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
— Harriet Tubman
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.
— Harriet Tubman
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
— Harriet Tubman
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
— Harriet Tubman
I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
— Harriet Tubman
Never wound a snake; kill it.
— Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
— Langston Hughes
I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
— Harriet Tubman
You'll be free or die!
— Harriet Tubman
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
— Harriet Tubman
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
— Stokely Carmichael
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
— Harriet Tubman
I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'
— Harriet Tubman
'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
— Harriet Tubman
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
— Alice Walker
I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.
— Harriet Tubman
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
— Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman: I could have saved thousands - if only I'd been able to convince them they were slaves.
— Rebecca Traister
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.
— Harriet Tubman
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
— Harriet Tubman
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
I can't die but once.
— Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
— W.E.B. Du Bois