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“You know my cause well. My cause was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people and I’d rather be a corpse than a coward."

— Mary Ellen Pleasant

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"Some say that words are made to reveal feelings; I say that words are made to conceal them.”

"I am a whole theatre in myself." I cant like my the right

“I was a girl full of smartness who let books alone and studied men and women a good deal … I have always noticed that when I have something to say, people listen. They never go to sleep on me."

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