More - Harriet Tubman Quotes

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman

 American Activist

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

 American Activist

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman

 American Activist

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

Harriet Tubman

 War

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Harriet Tubman

 American Activist

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

 American Activist Liberty

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

 American Activist Liberty

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

 Freedom

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Harriet Tubman

 American Activist Experience

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

 American Activist Land