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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
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
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
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
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
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
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 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

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