Harriet Tubman citations

Harriet Tubman, née en 1821 ou 1822 et morte le 10 mars 1913 à Auburn , est une militante en faveur de l'abolition de l'esclavage afro-américain. Ses actions, qui permirent l'évasion de nombreux esclaves, lui valurent le surnom de Moïse noire, Grand-mère Moïse, ou encore Moïse du peuple Noir.

Après la guerre de Sécession et l'abolition de l'esclavage aux États-Unis en 1865, elle oriente ses actions dans la lutte contre le racisme et le mouvement en faveur du droit de vote des femmes.

Son souvenir est formellement honoré aux États-Unis depuis une directive présidentielle du 10 mars 1990.

Son portrait devait initialement figurer sur le billet de 20 dollars américains à partir de 2020, faisant d'elle la première personnalité noire ainsi distinguée. Wikipedia  

✵ 1820 – 10. mars 1913
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Harriet Tubman: Citations en anglais

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

Attributed to Tubman in Dorothy Winbush Riley, My Soul Looks Back 'Less I Forget https://books.google.com/books?id=KpcLAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22c.+1865%22 p. 148 (1993). Riley gives a date of "c. 1865" but offers no citation. No source from earlier than 1993 is known. Quoted in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah, p. 299. Tubman specialists like Jean H. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson deem this one completely spurious. See "Bogus Tubman," by Steve Perisho http://liberlocorumcommunium.blogspot.com/2014/03/bogus-tubman-i-freed-thousands-of.html.<!-- Someone cited this as being in Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886) by Sarah H. Bradford, but it does not occur in the editions available online. -->
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Variante: I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.

“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on 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.”

Modernized rendition: 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; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The phrase "" is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)
Variante: There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.
Contexte: I had reasoned dis 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 de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.

“Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”

Modernized rendition: Oh, Lord! You've been with me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)

“Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”

"Harriet Tubman never said this — it comes from one of the scores of juvenile Harriet Tubman fictionalized biographies." — Kate Larson, Harriet Tubman biographer.
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“I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”

On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states
Modernized rendition: 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.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)

“I love all of the african americans like they are my children.”

"African american" seems an ananchronistic term here, as the term was seldom used before the 1970s.
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“I can't die but once.”

As quoted in The Underground Railroad (1987) by Charles L. Blockson

“I had reasoned dis 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 de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.”

Modernized rendition: 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; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The phrase "Liberty or Death" is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)

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