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

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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
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
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
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
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
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
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 … 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
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
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
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
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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Man Myself Reading

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

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