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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
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
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
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
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
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Myself Old Responsibility Talk
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
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Better Feeling Give Up Ourselves Right Thinking Yourself
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
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
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
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit

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