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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 not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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
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
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
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk

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