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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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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
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
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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
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
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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 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
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
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
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
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
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

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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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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