Harriet Tubman

African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)

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Also known as Araminta Ross, Harriet Ross Tubman, Minty Ross

Notable quotes

“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.”
— As quoted in Women's Words : The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (1996) by Mary Biggs, p. 2
“I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”
— On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states
“Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”
— Modernized rendition: Oh, Lord! You've been with me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!
“I had reasoned dis 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 de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.”
— Modernized rendition: 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; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

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