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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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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
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
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
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Beautiful Book Enough Government Law Learning People Reading
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
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
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Greatness Myself Truth Wait
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
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Help Man Myself Need Place Woman
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
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
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
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
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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Dream Freedom Fruit Live Myself Seed

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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