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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

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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
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
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
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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Feminism Right Talk Women
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
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
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
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
And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
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Children Cry Grief Mom Myself Slave Woman
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading

The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

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