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Now I've been free, I know what a 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.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Know , Back , Free , Slavery


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.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Me , Welcome , Freedom , Free


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.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Me , Think , Hell , Slavery


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.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Never , Lost , I Can , Train


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.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Me , Dreams , Beautiful , Green


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.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Mind , Things , Death , Liberty


I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Experience , Weed , Ignorant , Liberty


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.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Gold , Hands , Sun , Heaven


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.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Me , Time , Fight , Strength


I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.

Author: Harriet Tubman - American Activist
  Me , Look , Good , Sweet


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