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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

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