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

- Jupiter Hammon

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 …

- Jupiter Hammon

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare s…

- 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 …

- Jupiter Hammon

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

- Jupiter Hammon

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…

- 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.

- Jupiter Hammon

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 shal…

- 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.

- Jupiter Hammon