“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 wa…”— Harriet Tubman, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: prayer, Master, Slavery, Opression
“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; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.orgTagged: Freedom, Opression, Stranger
“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, harriet-tubman.orgTagged: Death, Liberty, Freedom, Time
“I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.orgTagged: Faith, Belief, God
“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, harriet-tubman.orgTagged: Change, glory, Heaven, goal