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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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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
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
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner 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 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
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
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

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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