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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

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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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
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
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
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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 above eighty years old … I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.
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Age Myself Right Talk Woman
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
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
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Alone Enough God Right Strong Woman World
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
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
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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

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