Truth is powerful and it prevails.

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It is the mind that makes the body.

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

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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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

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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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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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The Great Sin Of Prejudice Against Color

Children,
who made your skin white?
Was it not God?
Who made mine black?
Was it not the same God?
Am I to blame, therefore,
because my skin is black?
Does it not cast a reproach
on our Maker
to despise a part of His children,
because He has been pleased
to give them a black skin?
Indeed, children, it does;
and your teachers ought to tell you so,
and root up, if possible,
the great sin of prejudice
against color from your minds.

While Sabbath School Teachers
know of this great sin,

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