Quotes by Jupiter Hammon
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If we are found among those who feared his name, and trembled at his word, we shall be called good and faithful servants.
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
I have had more experience in the world than the most of you, and I have seen a great deal of the vanity, and wickedness of it.
When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
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.
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?
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