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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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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
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
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
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
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 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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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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