Selected Quotes By Harriet Tubman
"Some people say i would rather be pushin a ford than driving a chevy, em too i love a good workout."
Harriet Tubman, Criticism
"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more."
Harriet Tubman, Freedom
"I am at peace with God and all mankind."
Harriet Tubman, Belief
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."
Harriet Tubman, Goals
"In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there no-how. I can't seem to get over that line."
Harriet Tubman, Goals
"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."
Harriet Tubman, Freedom
"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, Goals
"I go to prepare a place for you."
Harriet Tubman, Goals
"I ask of my Heavenly Father, that when the last trump sounds, and my name is called, I may stand close by your side, to answer to the call."
Harriet Tubman, Belief
"[If my services] do not place woman as man's equal, what do?"
Harriet Tubman, Sex
"What did you say to me this morning? You said ‘We hadn’t got nothing to eat in the house and what did I say to you? I said ‘I’ve got a rich Father!’"
Harriet Tubman, Belief
"I had my jubilee three years ago. I rejoiced all I could then; I can't rejoice no more."
Harriet Tubman, Happiness
"I just removed my father's trial to a higher court, and brought him off to Canada."
Harriet Tubman, Justice
"Appears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes, I know it’s going to be war!"
Harriet Tubman, Anger and Fighting
"Why, the language down there in the far South is just as different from ours in Maryland as you think. They laughed when they heard me talk and I couldn’t understand them no how."
Harriet Tubman, Society
"The white ladies and gentlemen gathered round him, till I couldn't see Joe for the crowd, only I heard his voice singing, 'Glory to God and Jesus too,' louder than ever."
Harriet Tubman, Belief
"My people are free!"
Harriet Tubman, Freedom
"I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know no better. They acts up to the light they have."
Harriet Tubman, Belief
"We was the fools, and the was the wise men; but we wasn't fools enough to go down the high road in the broad daylight."
Harriet Tubman, Intelligence/Wisdom
"I ain't got no heart to go and see the sufferings of my people played on the stage. I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen the real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater."
Harriet Tubman, Freedom
"Master Lincoln, he’s a great man, and I’m a poor Negro but this Negro can tell Master Lincoln how to save money and young men."
Harriet Tubman, Sex
"I was 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, Work
"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, Belief
"I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through."
Harriet Tubman, Belief
"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, Freedom
"There was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."
Harriet Tubman, Freedom
"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, Freedom, Happiness
"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, Freedom, Death
"We would rather stay in our native land, if we could be as free there as we are here."
Harriet Tubman, Freedom
"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, Freedom
"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, Freedom, Goals
"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, Freedom
"Slavery is the next thing to hell."