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We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the t

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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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

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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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