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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Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.Sojourner Truth
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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That ... man ... says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from ... From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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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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Quoting Oprah Winfrey, TV personality, regarding the women pioneers I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and Madame C. J. Walker. 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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