Quotes by Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

American abolitionist and humanitarian

Lived from: 1822 - 1913

Born: 6 march 1822 Died: 10 march 1913

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

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• 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.
  

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• Never wound a snake; kill it.
  

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• 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.
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

• experience
• condition
• stranger
• dreadful
• hundreds
• freedom

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