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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

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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
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
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 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
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
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
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
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End God Home Leaving Myself
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
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
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
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
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 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

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