Quotes by Harriet Tubman
“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
“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
“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 the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.”— Harriet Tubman
“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
“I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”— Harriet Tubman
“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.”— Harriet Tubman
“There was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.”— Harriet Tubman
“I told the Lord I was going to hold steady on to him, and I knowed he would see me through.”— Harriet Tubman
“'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere; I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.”— Harriet Tubman
“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