Harriet Tubman Quotes

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

"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 now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven."
-Harriet Tubman in Freedom quotes.

"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
-Harriet Tubman

"Never wound a snake; kill it."
-Harriet Tubman

"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."
-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 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