Parting Words: On Liberty

Host Jacki Lyden offers parting words from Harriet Tubman, born a slave on Maryland's Eastern Shore:

"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came like gold through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. ...

"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.