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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.

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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
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
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
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
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 have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Deal Equality Greatness Man Myself Oppression Pay Woman Work
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor

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