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If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?

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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
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
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
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Black God Himself Men Right 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
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
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Greatness Myself Truth Wait
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
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
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work

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