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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
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Help Man Myself Need Place Woman
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
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 am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
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Happiness Man Myself Right Water Woman
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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 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
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
And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
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Children Cry Grief Mom Myself Slave Woman
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
If my cup won’t hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn’t ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
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Alcohol Drink Hold Myself
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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

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