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Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.
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Darkness Determination Easy Fight Freedom Hard Life Light Sing
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
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Black God Himself Men Right Woman
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
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Equality Freedom Myself Right Slave Time
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
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Beautiful Book Enough Government Law Learning People Reading
I am a woman’s rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
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Man Myself Right Woman Work
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
I don’t read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can’t see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
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Ideas Myself Nation Reading See Vote
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Deal Equality Greatness Man Myself Oppression Pay Woman Work
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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