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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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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 am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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
If my cup won’t hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn’t ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
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Alcohol Drink Hold Myself
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
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
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
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
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
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
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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
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

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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