American hero!-----Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill

Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill | Cato Institute:
"...Tubman would be a great choice to replace him.
She represents the best of America. 
She was born between 1820 and 1822 in Maryland to slave parents.
She was christened Araminta Ross and her mother fought hard to hold the family together. Tubman was hired out and often beaten.
She suffered permanent harm but her strong Christian faith helped sustain her. 
After her owner’s death in 1849, which led his widow to begin selling their slaves, she escaped through the Underground Railroad to Philadelphia.
However, a year later she returned to Maryland to rescue her niece and the latter’s two children, beginning a career of leading slaves to freedom.
Frederick Douglass may have hosted one of her groups, sheltering it and raising money to send the fugitives on to Canada.
She was daring and creative; her plans were sophisticated.
Although she trusted God she also saw value in arming herself. 
Among the 70 or so slaves she saved were her three brothers.
She also helped instruct scores of other escapees.
Neither she nor any of those she guided were captured.
She directed her last rescue in December 1860.
Tubman also was an active abolitionist and lecturer, friendly with New York Senator William Seward.
She aided John Brown, though she played no direct role in his raid on Harpers Ferry.
During the Civil War she pressed abolition on the Lincoln administration. 
With greater effect she aided slave refugees, served as a nurse, and acted as a scout for the federal army.
Long after the war she aided the cause of women’s suffrage, working with Susan Anthony, among others.
Despite manifold health problems she lived past 90, dying in 1913.
It’s an incredible legacy.
Tubman fought enormous injustice and promoted human liberty. 
She advocated genuine equality of opportunity, allowing women to vote, rather than the sort of PC notions of equality popular today.
She exhibited courage in fighting and breaking unjust laws. 
She was no ivory tower theorist, but took the lead in putting her views into action.
She never saw her work as done, but constantly joined anew the battle for freedom.
Never did she wait for bureaucrats, politicians, judges, lawyers, and others to act. Instead, she acted to rescue the oppressed..."
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She was a true American!