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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.

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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
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 did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
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
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
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Greatness Myself Truth Wait
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
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Eat Equality Man Woman Work
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner 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
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

What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.

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