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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

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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
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 not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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 Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
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 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
And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
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Children Cry Grief Mom Myself Slave Woman
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
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

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