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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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 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
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
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
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
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 did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
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Brother Family Moon Sister Stars Togetherness
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
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
I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
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Happiness Man Myself Right Water 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
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
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 not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
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
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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Alone Enough God Right Strong Woman World
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
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
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power

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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