Author: Jupiter Hammon

Quotes

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

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

- Jupiter Hammon

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

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

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

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 converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

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 converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

- 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

Good servants frequently make good masters.

Good servants frequently make good masters.

- Jupiter Hammon

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

- Jupiter Hammon

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