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Quote by Harriet Tubman
I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome

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

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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

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War
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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

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Change
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. – Harriet Tubman

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Trust
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. – Charles Lindbergh

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As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. – Thabo Mbeki

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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose ones government is not necessarily to secure freedom. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. – Mitt Romney

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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. – Sir Walter Scott

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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. – Brander Matthews

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. – George Bernard Shaw

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