Jupiter Hammon

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#black #ever #find #get #heaven

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 think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#book #harden #into #lightly #look

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

— Jupiter Hammon

#eye #faithful #men #our #service

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 them, whenever you think you shall not be found out. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#found #goods #how #masters #much

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

— Jupiter Hammon

#learn #read #spent #time #trying

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

#bible #born #converted #forever #miserable

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

#feelings #great #great thing #judge #know

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

— Jupiter Hammon

#forbidden #god #i #know #mention

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

#how #little #little time #live #matter

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 you should commit the same crime? ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#commit #crime #excuse #kill #know