Jupiter Hammon Quotes

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• That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people,…
• Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all…
• If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
• All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
• As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot…
• I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many…
• If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would…
• It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
• If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you…
• Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
• He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
• You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if…
• It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from…
• We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their…
• Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are…
• Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if…
• You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will…
• Good servants frequently make good masters.
• If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
• The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

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