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Harriet Tubman: There was one...

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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; for no man should take me alive.

Source: In Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People, by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.
-- Harriet Tubman, ( c.1820-1913), US abolitionist, emancipator; Moses of Her People escaped slavery at the age 25, but returned to the South 19 times to spirit 300 people to Canada on the Underground Railroad.


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