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It is the mind that makes the body.

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Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

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When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'

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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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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 your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

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God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

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The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

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Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

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It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.

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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

Died: November 26th, 1883

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