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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

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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
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
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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave 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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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
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

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