Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

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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; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free."

- Harriet Tubman

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"Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave."

- Harriet Tubman

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"I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater."

- Harriet Tubman

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"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more."

- Harriet Tubman

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"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."

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"Beauty is a gentle and loving heart."

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"There is no greater beauty than kindness and compassion."

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"Selflessness is the most beautiful trait one can possess."

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"A kind heart can bring light to the darkest of places."

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"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

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