Harriet Tubman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Inspiring #Democracy #Slavery
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 #Taste #Torches
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 #Years #Eight
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Slave
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.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Mankind
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

#Freedom #Land #Slavery
Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Lord #Steady
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
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Friends #Quaker
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 I felt like I was in heaven.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Freedom #Hands #Heaven
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Weed #Marijuana #Ignorant
Never wound a snake; kill it.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Snakes #Political #Politics
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Track #Lost #Passengers
I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Able #Slave #Thousand
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
I can't die but once.
-- Harriet Tubman
Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Rights #Leader #Enemy
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
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Courage #Enemy #Vulnerable
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Hands #Slavery #Persons
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Inspiring #Dream #Dreamer
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
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
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

#Light #Heaven #Links
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Slavery #Next #Hell
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
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

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