Quote by Harriet Tubman
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no e

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

Other quotes by 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

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War
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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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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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Freedom
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We really havent had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we dont know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario. – Ron Chernow

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Its a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe weve come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a quickening of the spirit. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Experience

You dont cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. – Andre Agassi

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Experience

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. – Michael Eisner

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Experience

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