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Good servants frequently make good masters. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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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 white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#believe #bless #desire #enjoyed #ever

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

#books #could #good #matter #other

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

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

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

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

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

— Jupiter Hammon

#learn #read #spent #time #trying

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#again #be happy #black #born #death