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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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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
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
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
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
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
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 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
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
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
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
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

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

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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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