If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

Harriet Tubman

Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

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 think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Harriet Tubman

Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war

Harriet Tubman

I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

Harriet Tubman

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Harriet Tubman

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

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

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say.

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 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