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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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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
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
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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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