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Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

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There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

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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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Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

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I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

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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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The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

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The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

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I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

Died: November 26th, 1883

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