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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

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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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Black God Himself Men Right Woman
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
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Deal Equality Greatness Man Myself Oppression Pay Woman Work
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
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
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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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
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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Darkness Determination Easy Fight Freedom Hard Life Light Sing
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

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