Author: Jupiter Hammon

Quotes

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

- Jupiter Hammon

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

- Jupiter Hammon

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

- Jupiter Hammon

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 in your power to prevent their being free.

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 in your power to prevent their being free.

- Jupiter Hammon

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

- Jupiter Hammon

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 business.

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 business.

- Jupiter Hammon

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

- Jupiter Hammon

Good servants frequently make good masters.

Good servants frequently make good masters.

- Jupiter Hammon

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, in the late war.

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, in the late war.

- Jupiter Hammon

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