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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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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
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading
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 a woman’s rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
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Man Myself Right Woman Work
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
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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
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
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
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 ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner 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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob

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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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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