Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

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.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

Truth burns up error.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

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