I am at peace with God and all mankind.
Harriet TubmanRead
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the struggle for freedom and the isolation that can accompany it.
Harriet Tubman's quote illustrates the profound sense of liberation she felt after escaping to freedom, yet highlights the bittersweet reality of being unwelcomed and alone in a new land. It emphasizes the courage it takes to pursue freedom, while also revealing the potential loneliness and unfamiliarity that can accompany such a brave choice.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of pursuing one's dreams despite challenges.
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
There's something wrong in a nation where six million black men are not allowed to vote because they were convicted of felonies. They've paid their dues to society, but yet their right to vote is not reinstated.
I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.
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