50 Harriet Tubman Quotes That Will Motivate You

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1. “And I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.” – Harriet Tubman

2. “God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens. He means I should be free.” – Harriet Tubman

3. “I am at peace with God and all mankind.” – Harriet Tubman

4. “Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!” – Harriet Tubman

5. “It wasn’t me, it was 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

6. “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

7. “I can’t die but once.” – Harriet Tubman

8. “You’ll be free or die!” – Harriet Tubman

9. “The sun came up like gold through the trees and I felt like I was in heaven.” – Harriet Tubman

10. “Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.” – Harriet Tubman

11. “Slave parents lived in abject terror of separation from their children.” – Harriet Tubman

12. “Quakers are almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.” – Harriet Tubman

13. “I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.” – Harriet Tubman

14. “Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

15. “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

16. “’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

17. “Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.” – Harriet Tubman

18. “I had two sisters carried away in a chain gang one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.” – Harriet Tubman

19. “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

20. “Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.” – Harriet Tubman

21. “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

22. “Farewell, old Master, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.” – Harriet Tubman

23. “I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.” – Harriet Tubman

24. “Slavery is the next thing to hell.” – Harriet Tubman

25. “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” – Harriet Tubman

26. “I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They act up to the light they have.” – Harriet Tubman

27. “Now that I’ve been freed, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is.” – Harriet Tubman

28. “Now I’ve been free, I know what dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.” – Harriet Tubman

29. “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

30. “Stop searching for happiness in the same place you lost it. Change is not dismantling the old, it’s building the new.” – Harriet Tubman

31. “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.” – Harriet Tubman

32. “I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.” – Harriet Tubman

33. “I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.” – Harriet Tubman

34. “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

35. “The majority of slaves struggled against the tide of indifference to their desires. They engineered love matches and cemented unions with ceremonies.” – Harriet Tubman

36. “I love all of the African Americans like they are my children.” – Harriet Tubman

37. “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

38. “It wasn’t me, it was 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

39. “I grew up like a neglected weed ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.” – Harriet Tubman

40. “I’ve seen the real thing, and I don’t want to see it on no stage or in no theater.” – Harriet Tubman

41. “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; for no man should take me alive.” – Harriet Tubman

42. “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

43. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.” – Harriet Tubman

44. “Change is not dismantling the old, it’s building the new.” – Harriet Tubman

45. “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

46. “I never lost a passenger.” – Harriet Tubman

47. “Never wound a snake; kill it.” – Harriet Tubman

48. “Marriages among slaves could be grand and festive.” – Harriet Tubman

49. “Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to You and You’ve got to see me through.” – Harriet Tubman

50. “Appears like I prayed all the time about my work, everywhere, I prayed and groaned to the Lord.” – Harriet Tubman

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