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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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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 the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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
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
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
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
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
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 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 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
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
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

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

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