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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
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
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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
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
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
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
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
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
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
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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Dream Freedom Fruit Live Myself Seed
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
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
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman

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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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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