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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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Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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 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
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
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
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
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Equality Freedom Myself Right Slave Time
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
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

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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