Harriet Tubman

Quotes

• “She made nineteen dangerous trips back and forth, often disguised, escorting more than three hundred slaves to freedom, ...”
• “According to Tubman's own words, and extensive documentation on her rescue missions, we know that she rescued about 70 p...”
• “Modernized rendition: I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or deat...”
• “When slaves sang, "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home, they may have appeared to be evoking freedom i...”
• “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 ...”
• “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, a...”
• “When she made it to freedom after having been a slave and she got to New York and she could have been so happy to just s...”
• “Frederick Douglass, letter to Harriet Tubman (29 August 1868), as quoted in Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1886) by S...”
• “The love of democracy motivated Harriet Tubman to seek and find not only her own freedom, but to make innumerable trips ...”
• “Modernized rendition: I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory o...”
• “I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B....”
• “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 ...”
• “Herself born a slave, she first tasted the sweets of liberty in 1849. She subsequently made nineteen excursions south an...”
• “W. H. Withrow, in "The Underground Railway" (27 May 1902) as published in Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Soci...”
• “While she was certainly a nurse, spy, and scout for the Union Army, I think the claims that she was the first female gen...”
• “Thomas Wentworth Higginson in a letter to his mother (17 June 1859), as published in Letters and Journals of Thomas Went...”
• “John Brown, introducing her to Wendell Phillips, as quoted in The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898) by...”
• “Oprah Winfrey, as quoted in Chicken Soup for the African American Woman's Soul (2006) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hans...”
• “Little Shirley grew up with a strong sense of her own destiny. Her early heroes were Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet Tubman...”
• “Hillary Clinton, as quoted in "Queen of Cringe : Hillary's Bogus "Black-Cent" by Michelle Malkin in The New York Post (2...”
• “As quoted in Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1971), by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, Freeport: Books for Libraries Press...”
• “William H. Seward, as quoted in The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898) by Wilbur Henry Siebert, p. 185”
• “Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”
• “Thomas Garrett, as quoted in Sounding Forth the Trumpet : 1837-1860 by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, p. 358”
• “Modernized rendition: Oh, Lord! You've been with me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”
• “I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.”
• “African american" seems an ananchronistic term here, as the term was seldom used before the 1970s.”
• “As quoted in Women's Words : The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (1996) by Mary Biggs, p. 2”
• “I have known Harriet long, and a nobler, higher spirit or a truer, seldom dwells in human form.”
• “Milton Sernett, The Truths Behind the Myth of Harriet Tubman, Maxwell Perspective, Spring 2008”
• “The phrase "" is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.”
• “Wilbur Henry Siebert in The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898), p. 185”
• “On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states”
• “Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869) online at University of North Carolina”
• “I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God.”
• “Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886) online at University of North Carolina”
• “Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”
• “Jailbreak Out Of History, a re-biography of Harriet Tubman by Butch Lee”
• “As quoted in The Underground Railroad (1987) by Charles L. Blockson”
• “Harriet Tubman Biography page with new information and research”
• “I love all of the african americans like they are my children.”
• “Harriet, The Moses of Her People at Project Gutenberg”
• “Frances Harper "We Are All Bound Up Together" (1866)”
• “Kate Clifford Larson, Harriet Tubman Myths and Facts”
• “Adrienne Maree Brown Interview with On Being (2022)”
• “I can't die but once.”