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 grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. – Harriet Tubman
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
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