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

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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
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
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
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
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
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
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
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
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
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
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
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
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
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

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