"If we should ever get to Heaven, we……" — Jupiter Hammon
"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."
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Jupiter Hammon
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25 Quotes by Jupiter Hammon
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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from…
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Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who…
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If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would…
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All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
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As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things…
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I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and…
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If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are…
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It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
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If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not…
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Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
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He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
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You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be…
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