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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

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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
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
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
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
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
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
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
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
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
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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

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