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Harriet Tubman Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“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; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.”
— Harriet Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Tagged: Change, glory, Heaven, goal
“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, Harriet Tubman at a suffrage convention, NY, 1896
Tagged: Conductor, Trains, Safety, Railroad
“Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.”
— Harriet Tubman, Harriet, the Moses of her People
Tagged: Farewell, Freedom, departure\
“I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.”
— Harriet Tubman, Harriet, the Moses of her People
Tagged: Outcry, Tears, Opression, Freedom
“Slavery is the next thing to hell.”
— Harriet Tubman, Harriet Tubman to Benjamin Drew, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 1855
Tagged: Slavery, Inequality
“There are two things I’ve got a right to, and these are, Death or Liberty – one or the other I mean to have. No one will take me back alive; I shall fight for my liberty, and when the time has come for me to go, the Lord will let them, kill me.”
— Harriet Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Tagged: Death, Liberty, Freedom, Time
“I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'.”
— Harriet Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Tagged: prayer, Master, Slavery, Opression
“I can't die but once.”
— Harriet Tubman, The Underground Railroad
Tagged: Death, Inevitable
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