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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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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
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
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Alone Enough God Right Strong Woman World
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Ash Myself One Liner Talk
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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Myself One Liner Spirit
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
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
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
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
It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
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Death Hold Slave Spirit
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Advice Racket
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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Human Humanity Poor Religion
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 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
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
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
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 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
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
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Better Feeling Give Up Ourselves Right Thinking Yourself
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
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 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
And ar’n’t I a woman?
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Myself One Liner Woman

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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