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It is the mind that makes the body.

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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
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
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest–if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.
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Beautiful Death Different Need See Time Vote Yourself
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
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
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
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
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
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
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob

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