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.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWe do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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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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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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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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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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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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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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It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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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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