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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?

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.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

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

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

If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

It is the mind that makes the body.

If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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

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

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

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.