Another day , another mortal fooled by a incorrectly impute Harriet Tubman citation . Or , as in today ’s example , the world ’s large search engine .
This aurora , a warm visit to Google dot com brought up a fairly normal web page : the colored Google logotype , the lookup bar , the “ Google Search ” and “ I ’m feel Lucky ” clitoris . Below that , however , the fall out telephone circuit could be found :
“ Every great ambition get with a dreamer . ” — Harriet Tubman
It ’s a adorable sentiment . Unfortunately , it does n’t have any diachronic groundwork , and there ’s no proof Harriet Tubman ever say it .
“ I ’ve never found it in the chief sources about Harriet Tubman , ” Milton Sernett , historian and source of the leger Harriet Tubman : Myth , computer storage , and History , tell Gizmodo when reached by phone this morning . “ There are a number of things attribute to her , ” he lend , that get “ egest around . ” But not all of them are legitimate , and that seems to be the compositor’s case here , he said .
Kate Clifford Larson , a Harriet Tubman scholar and biographer , also disputes the accuracy of the inverted comma , the full variant of which also include a second sentence : “ Always remember , you have within you the strength , the patience , and the passionateness to get hold of for the hotshot to deepen the world . ”
“ There is no original quote for this . This citation was entirely made up in 2007 . There is no support , nor historical base for this citation , ” Larsonwrites on her website .
Google is n’t the only one that was fooled . New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted out the full inverted comma yesterday afternews brokethat Tubman would be admit on the $ 20 bill . He later deleted the tweet , saying , “ Right idea , haywire ascription on my Tubman tweet . She did n’t in reality say that , but still — incredible procession . ”
Bill de Blasio squeeze a imitation - as - inferno Hallmark - esque Harriet Tubman quote.https://t.co/4v9V5gWIJNpic.twitter.com/xb0Gn25ZDG
— The New Republic ( @newrepublic)April 20 , 2016
Moreover , this is n’t the first false Harriet Tubman quote that has made the round : As Gizmodo ’s Matt Novakpointed out yesterday , the “ quote ” that was hold up viral yesterday—“I free a thousand slaves . I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”—also lacks right diachronic basis . ( It , too , is includedon Kate Clifford Larson ’s leaning of BS citation . )
As for where Google line up the quote in the first piazza , the digital trail of crumbsleads back tothe National Women ’s History Museum . After we strive out to Google for illumination , however , we noticed that the quotation had disappeared , and we can no longer see it on the homepage . We ’ll update this post if we hear back .
Update 11:12 am : The slideshow that cites the National Women ’s History Museum , which initially key out an double of the inverted comma as “ Harriet Tubman quotation , ” has now been update to say , “ Quote Describing Harriet Tubman as brainchild . ”
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