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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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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 feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
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Feeling Inspirational Myself Powerful Safety Truth Willing
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest–if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.
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Beautiful Death Different Need See Time Vote Yourself
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
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Brother Family Moon Sister Stars Togetherness
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
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End God Home Leaving Myself
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
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
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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Myself Old Responsibility Talk
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
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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Feminism Right Talk Women

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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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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