The Wisdom of Harriet Tubman

[Umm Muhammad]

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.

“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

“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.”

“Never wound a snake; kill it.”

“You'll be free or die!”

'I venture only where God send.'

'Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.'

'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.'