Best 19 quotes of Harriet Tubman on MyQuotes

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

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

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.

I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.

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.

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 over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

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.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty.

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.

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.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Slavery is the next thing to hell.

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.

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.